Am Tue, 4 Feb 2014 08:45:47 -0200
schrieb Andrew Eross <eross@locatrix.com>:

> Thanks, Chris.
>
> Yeah, I hear you on that, but sorry, to be more specific, I was
> running this test to get an idea of performance for regular LDAP use,
> and slapadd is a purely offline solution.
>
> It would be helpful for a restore, of course, but not equivalent to
> when our application will be adding/modifying records (which is what
> I'm really trying to simulate).
>
> Running the same test of inserting 1M rows into postgres with the
> same type of data record on the same machine goes about 3x faster,
> which just doesn't sound right, since LDAP should be way faster than
> Postgres, right?
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
>
>
>
> Andrew Eross
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>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Chris Card <ctcard@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ________________________________
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I've been Google'ing around and searching the archives, but I
> > > haven't quite been able to find an answer, so I wanted to ask the
> > > list.
> > >
> > > I've been experimenting with OpenLDAP adds to see how quickly we
> > > can get data inserted into the DB.
> > >
> > > I'm using Ubuntu 10.04, and I've tried both the packaged OpenLDAP
> > > 2.4.21 using hdb, and just recently the latest OpenLDAP 2.4.39
> > > using lmdb, both with relatively similar results.
> > >
> > > The short version is: to insert 1 million records, it's taking
> > > about 8 hours on a machine with 2GB RAM / 3Ghz / SSD, which seems
> > > like a long time to me.
> > >
> > > The insert method is to use a single big ldiff file like this:

You may have a look at this paper, helt at LDAPcon 2013

http://fr.slideshare.net/ldapcon/benchmarks-on-ldap-directories

-Dieter

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