Re: poor performance of OpenLDAP vs AD?

2005-07-16 Thread Paul Kölle
Digant C Kasundra wrote: In our own research at UTA we found this to be true. There are a handful of aspects that make AD problematic from the LDAP standpoint. It is also problematic when you want to use it even for Authentication and Authorization of machines not running Windows. Hi, have

Re: poor performance of OpenLDAP vs AD?

2005-07-15 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Or perhaps it's possible to configure OpenLDAP in a way, that we can temporarily edit slave database when the connection to the master is broken, and when the connection is back, changes are sent to the master, which in

Re: poor performance of OpenLDAP vs AD?

2005-07-14 Thread Howard Chu
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Howard Chu schrieb: Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Wednesday, July 13, 2005 2:49 PM +0200 Tomasz Chmielewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently, when planning to deploy a directory server, I was confronted with someone claiming that OpenLDAP performs poorly,

Re: poor performance of OpenLDAP vs AD?

2005-07-14 Thread Igor Brezac
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Wednesday, July 13, 2005 12:48 PM -0400 Igor Brezac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benchmark that matters is the one you perform. Yes and no. Certainly, taking at look at how things perform for what you plan to deploy can be quite

Re: poor performance of OpenLDAP vs AD?

2005-07-14 Thread Christopher Hicks
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Igor Brezac wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: Qualitative statements about the general performance of any set of given Directory Servers can be made if you make everything the same as much as is feasibly possible. I do not see this being realistic.

Re: poor performance of OpenLDAP vs AD?

2005-07-14 Thread Marty Heyman
Igor, We at Symas Corporation completely agree with you. Our benchmarks are intended to be indicative. As data points, they help us understand the relative performance among various products, platforms, releases and options. They are factual, rigorous, accurate, and, in the end, only

Re: poor performance of OpenLDAP vs AD?

2005-07-14 Thread vadim
Hi all, I would like to add my two cents to this no doubt interesting discussion. I think my two cents will be valuable as I am running about 50 instances of OpenLDAP servers in company of huge size with huge amount of data (per directory). 1) OpenLDAP is rock solid and damned stable. We run it

Re: poor performance of OpenLDAP vs AD?

2005-07-14 Thread vadim
Hallo again, On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 11:19 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: (...) On the other hand, there seems to be much overhead concerned with additional data that goes around to keep this multimaster state in sync. And here is where the argument really falls down - all

Re: poor performance of OpenLDAP vs AD?

2005-07-13 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Wednesday, July 13, 2005 2:49 PM +0200 Tomasz Chmielewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently, when planning to deploy a directory server, I was confronted with someone claiming that OpenLDAP performs poorly, when compared to Active Directory, and thus, we should choose AD. I tried