Would you recommend more than 2GB for 100k/hr? On 7/13/07, Chris St. Pierre <stpierre at nebrwesleyan.edu> wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Vampire D wrote: > > > We will not be using LDAP in the traditional sense. > > > > Instead of authentication, we will be using it to perform lookups upon > > incoming mail. > > We plan on having tens of thousands of email addresses stored in LDAP, > every > > message that comes in is verified via LDAP that it is allowed, and then > it > > is processed by our system. We plan on caching entries (positive and > > negative) for 24 hours, so as long as the look up has been done in the > last > > 24 hours and the 1M record cache isn't exhausted it will not perform a > look > > up. This should cut down a lot of the demand. Initially we are looking > at > > about 100k lookups an hour, as we expand the service that can go up by > > 50-100k at a time. > > Lots of people (myself included) use LDAP for this, among other > things. > > Fedora DS will not blink at 100K searches per hour. I have seen > 50-80K ops/minute on our LDAP servers, which are HP DL145s with 2 > cores and 4 Gb memory, without any performance degradation, and I've > spoken with people doing far more than that on comparable hardware. > > At the rates you're talking about, performance will be a non-issue. > > Chris St. Pierre > Unix Systems Administrator > Nebraska Wesleyan University > ---------------------------- > LOPSA Sysadmin Days: Professional Training for Professional SysAdmins > August 6-7, Cherry Hill, NJ > http://lopsa.org/SysadminDays > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > -- "Do the actors on Unsolved Mysteries ever get arrested because they look just like the criminal they are playing?" Christopher -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20070713/4c83f8f7/attachment.html
