https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9651

Issue ID: 9651 Summary: Add some kind of rate limiting option to ldapmodify Product: OpenLDAP Version: 2.5.6 Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: enhancement Priority: --- Component: client tools Assignee: bugs@openldap.org Reporter: hyc@openldap.org Target Milestone: ---

When using ldapmodify to replay a testing workload it would be useful to be able to specify a request rate, instead of just performing multiple operations in immediate succession. As a simpler alternative, just being able to specify a time interval between operations would be helpful.

As an even greater future enhancement, it would be nice to have an option to replay an accesslog.ldif directly, using its embedded timestamps to control the time interval between operations. Currently this isn't feasible since reqstart timestamps only have 1-second granularity, the fraction part is a linear counter and not a microsecond value. The reqStart fraction would need to be extended to 9 decimal places with full nanosecond resolution in order to be usable as actual fractional time. We already know that microsecond resolution is insufficient to avoid frequent collisions.