Hi, I totally agree with you about Solaris + OpenLdap issues. Just use Linux if you will use openldap if possible of course ..
Regards. On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]> wrote: > --On Thursday, February 24, 2011 3:53 PM +0100 [email protected] > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> we had some performance issues on our ldap servers running Solaris 10 >> sparc. >> >> I did some tests using slamd http://www.slamd.com/ and got disturbing >> results: >> >> ldap-service: OpenLDAP 2.4.23, setup identical on both boxes, threads=64, >> identical content. >> >> box1: >> hardware: Sun Microsystems sun4v SPARC Enterprise T5120 >> memory:32 GB RAM >> os: Solaris 10 s10s_u9wos_14a >> searches (avg/second): 1521 > > Slowaris is always tedious with OpenLDAP. At a previous job, I was able to > replace 9 slowaris boxes with 4 linux boxes, and even then, just one of the > Linux boxes could handle the complete load it took the 9 slowaris boxes to > run. > > I will note that if you are going to use slowaris, I highly advise you set a > memory key rather than using on disk cache for BDB if your DB is any size > over about 4 GB. Other than that, you'll generally just have to deal with > the fact it will be significantly slower than Linux. > > Some time ago, I did benchmarks of Linux 2.6 vs Slowaris-x86 on identical > hardware, and it still was noticeably slower, although not as bad as when > using the sparc architecture. > > --Quanah > > > -- > > Quanah Gibson-Mount > Sr. Member of Technical Staff > Zimbra, Inc > A Division of VMware, Inc. > -------------------- > Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration >
