At 04:55 AM 8/11/2005, Daniel Henninger wrote:
>Hi folk,
>
>I was to understand from reading some mailing list archives that there is a 
>theoretical unlimited size to any LDAP entry. 

In the protocol, yes.  In a particular implementation, there are
most certainly limits.  There are a few limits in slapd(8), or
underlying systems, that restrict how big an entry can be.

>So I have been asked to add memberUid's for all of the members of a group 
>entry.  Three groups in particular have ridiculously large member lists... one 
>of them, for example, has 82625 users in it at this time.  When I go to 
>populate this group, I get:
>slapadd: could not add entry dn="cn=ncsu,ou=groups,dc=ncsu,dc=edu" 
>(line=197035): txn_aborted! Not enough space (12)

You are likely exhausting a Berkeley DB resource.  

>If there is theoretically no size limit, I can only imagine that this is a 
>berkeley DB restriction and.. if so.. does anyone know how to tweak BDB to 
>allow larger entries?  Thanks!

The FAQ, as well as Berkeley DB documentation, has some discussion
as to how to configure/turn Berkeley DB.  Search for DB_CONFIG.


>Daniel
>
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