[Fedora-directory-users] DB object limit question

[Mike Jackson]

John Call wrote:
> Aloha list,
> 
> Is there a known limit of objects / db?  I've recently encountered 
> strange behaviour in my FDS.  The strange behaviour exhibits itself by 
> not allowing searchs within ou containers.  Although if I bind as 
> "Directory Manager" I can search, but it takes a painfully long time for 
> the results to come... on average about 10 minutes.

I have tested 10 million entries on a 2.4Ghz P4 machine with 512MB RAM, 
and it worked just fine.

You need to tune the administrative search limits, lookthrough limits, 
cache sizes, etc for larger databases. The defaults are too small to be 
useful for anything serious.


BR,
Mike
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