I will upgrade ldap. As to the slapadd, I realize
that should be faster, I am just wondering what
is the bottle neck here. I see nothing that is
hitting a wall of any type. I will as before, but
with a newer version of ldap and let everyone know
what I find. Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Quanah Gibson-Mount [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 5:44 PM
To: Douglas B. Jones; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ldap] Re: speeding up writes to ldap




--On Sunday, August 27, 2006 2:41 PM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>
> --On Sunday, August 27, 2006 4:17 PM -0400 "Douglas B. Jones"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I am  using Red Hat:
>>
>># uname -a
>>
>> Linux system 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:27:17 EDT 2006 i686 i686
>> i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> I have compiled openldap-2.23.21 with Berkley DB 4.4.20. This
>> is a hyperthread 2 processor system with 6gb of mem.
>
> This is an ancient release of OpenLDAP, which many known bugs.  I suggest
> upgrading to the latest stable release (2.3.27).
>
>> The disk system being written to is a clariion system
>> (I think cx600 w/8gb of mem) that is lightly loaded at
>> the time I am testing this out.
>>
>> In have ldapadd read an ldif with thousands of entries,
>> this is what I get (via top and iostat - note that the data
>> and log.* files are in the same place right now and that
>> I have seen the clariion push 100meg on another system and
>> 30+meg on this system):
>
> slapadd -q is the preferred mechanism for bulk-loading an OpenLDAP
> directory system.

Note that the "-q" option to slapadd wasn't added until OpenLDAP 2.3. ;)

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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