On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:20:23AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Norman Gaywood wrote: > >perform under load? I was always under the impression that OpenLDAP > >was the fastest and most scalable LDAP server around. For example: > > > >http://www.symas.com/benchmark-auth.shtml > > > >I recall reading another benchmark somewhere comparing it with FDS but > >can't find it at the moment. > > That looks to be a read-only test. What happens when you throw some > updates at it? And are there any benchmarks for FDS running in > multi-master mode with update activity? Yes it was a read-only test. But then that's the main application of LDAP servers. Are there applications that require high LDAP write performance? I found the other benchmark paper here: http://highlandsun.com/hyc/SambaXP.pdf It includes figures for FDS. A summary can be found here: http://www.mail-archive.com/ldap at umich.edu/msg01151.html According to that paper, OpenLDAP pretty much blows away everyone else in performance and scalability. Nothing else is even close. Of course it is a benchmark. I'm sure someone will find some flaws :-) -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm at turing.une.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
