On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 02:26:59PM +0100, Howard Chu wrote: a search with -a always , starting from the patch. Interesting, so the behavior is reversed now :-). I assume you have found an alternative approach to solve the problem. That's fine with me, I want the problem solved, not my patch integrated. I'm of course interested in how you do it. Surely you did not get the 4 minutes with a stock 2.4.48 slapd?