Chris Neilson wrote:
Is it advisable to remove unused schemas? Does including unused schemas result in any sort of performance penalty (e.g. while booting or when doing searches)?
Regarding slapd there's no noticable performance penalty.
If you have schema-aware LDAP client applications there could be a small performance penalty if those do not implement decent schema caching. There are only very few schema-aware LDAP client applications which are worth using anyway.
If I want to use syncrepl to replicate my data do I have to have the exact same list of schemas in the same order on the consumer (i.e. does the number in the curly braces matter)?
In general (for safety) and if in doubt: Yes.
There might be exceptions in some rare corner cases and if you really know what you're doing. ;-]
If I add a schema to a consumer does it have to be added to the provider as well even if the attributes it contains are unused?
Most times no.
Ciao, Michael.