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> 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:
>
> ### snip ###
> dn: cn=newtest0,ou=customer,dc=test,dc=com
> objectclass: inetOrgPerson
> userPassword: 90sac90sudasdjcao0sdjtest
> telephoneNumber: 61400000000
> sn: none
>
> dn: cn=newtest1,ou=customer,dc=test,dc=com
> objectclass: inetOrgPerson
> userPassword: 90sac90sudasdjcao0sdjtest
> telephoneNumber: 61400000000
> sn: none
> ### snip ###
>
> Then add it with ldapadd:
> ldapadd -x -D cn=admin,dc=test,dc=com -w test -f ./test
>

> <snipped>

>
> Any ideas or things I could try?
>

slapadd will be much faster

Chris