Full_Name: Jong K. Limb Version: 2.4.23 OS: Linux URL: Submission from: (NULL) (166.67.66.8)
In the Replication chapter, section 18.2.1 discusses the drawbacks to LDAP Sync replication. It gives the following paragraph:
For example, suppose you have a database consisting of 100,000 objects of 1 KB each. Further, suppose you routinely run a batch job to change the value of a single two-byte attribute value that appears in each of the 100,000 objects on the master. Not counting LDAP and TCP/IP protocol overhead, each time you run this job each consumer will transfer and process 1 GB of data to process 200KB of changes!
The math is incorrect. If 100,000 objects are of 1000 bytes each, that results in 100,000,000 bytes which is 100MB, not 1GB. This gives a false impression of the drawbacks of LDAP Sync replication.