Hi,

I am seeing very slow responses while using ldap_search_ext() and ldap_result(). I have explained my application below. Kindly let me know if you see any problems/clues.

I have written a simple application which reads a file and does LDAP search for all entities in the file. I am doing a simple bind with the LDAP server.

I have 2 threads and 2 queues namely, LDAP Search queue and LDAP result queue. - Thread 1 reads all the entities from LDAP Search queue, sends out LDAP search requests for those entities and puts them into LDAP result queue. - Thread 2 reads all the entities from LDAP Result queue and checks for search results for those entities.

These 2 threads do these tasks every 1 second.

Since I don't want to overload the LDAP server I have programmed a constraint of a maximum of 20 outstanding LDAP searches that haven't got a result yet.

Successful ldap_result() seems to be taking a long time. I keep getting LDAP_TIMEOUT errors. But i do get the result eventually without any retransmissions. But after a long time.

When I capture the LDAP packets, the results seems to coming in pretty quick. But still ldap_result returns a LDAP_TIMEOUT error. Why should ldap_result() return a timeout in this case?

Note that I am using LDAP_MSG_ONE in ldap_result. And I am using a timeout of 0 - I want to poll for the result and not actually block. I have turned OFF LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS on client side. (But still not able to figure out how to prevent Active Directory 2008 from sending out referrals).

My test file contains 25 entities and I want to query the LDAP server for these 25 entities.

This is a simplified form of my log:

At 0 seconds: LDAP Search thread: 25 more LDAP searches pending. 0 LDAP Search waiting for results Sent out 20 LDAP Search Requests. Trigger to start LDAP Result thread after 1 second. 5 more LDAP searches pending. Wait for 1 second before sending these out.

At 1 seconds: LDAP Result thread: 20 LDAP Search results pending. Got 1 LDAP results. 19 LDAP Search results still pending. Try again after 1 second.

LDAP Search Thread: 5 more LDAP Searches pending. 19 LDAP Search waiting for results. Sent out 1 LDAP Search Requests. 4 more LDAP searches pending. Wait for 1 second before sending these out.

At 2 seconds: LDAP Result thread: 20 LDAP Search results pending. Got 5 LDAP results. 15 LDAP Search results still pending. Try again after 1 second.

LDAP Search Thread: 4 more LDAP Searches pending. 15 LDAP Search waiting for results. Sent out 4 LDAP Search Requests. 0 LDAP Search pending. Stopping LDAP Search thread.

At 3 seconds: LDAP Result thread: 19 LDAP Search results pending. Got 4 LDAP results. 15 LDAP Search results still pending. Try again after 1 second.

At 4 seconds: LDAP Result thread: 15 LDAP Search results pending. Got 4 LDAP results. 11 LDAP Search results still pending. Try again after 1 second.

At 5 seconds: LDAP Result thread: 11 LDAP Search results pending. Got 3 LDAP results. 8 LDAP Search results still pending. Try again after 1 second.

At 6 seconds: LDAP Result thread: 8 LDAP Search results pending. Got 2 LDAP results. 6 LDAP Search results still pending. Try again after 1 second.

At 7 seconds: LDAP Result thread: 6 LDAP Search results pending. Got 1 LDAP results. 5 LDAP Search results still pending. Try again after 1 second.

At 8 seconds: LDAP Result thread: 5 LDAP Search results pending. Got 2 LDAP results. 3 LDAP Search results still pending. Try again after 1 second.

At 8 seconds: LDAP Result thread: 3 LDAP Search results pending. Got 1 LDAP results. 2 LDAP Search results still pending. Try again after 1 second.

At 9 seconds: LDAP Result thread: 2 LDAP Search results pending. Got 0 LDAP results. 2 LDAP Search results still pending. Try again after 1 second.

At 10 seconds: LDAP Result thread: 2 LDAP Search results pending. Got 1 LDAP results. 1 LDAP Search results still pending. Try again after 1 second.

At 11 seconds: LDAP Result thread: 1 LDAP Search results pending. Got 0 LDAP results. 1 LDAP Search results still pending. Try again after 1 second.

At 12 seconds: LDAP Result thread: 1 LDAP Search results pending. Got 1 LDAP results. 0 LDAP Search Results pending. Stopping LDAP Result thread.

Any help/clues is much appreciated.

Regards, Shankar