Hi Morgan,
In terms of scalability there should not be much issue with 225000 entries
It is still a relatively small db and scalability is not a criteria to use several backends.
That said it may still be handy for administrative reasons because it allows reinitializing the student db without impacting the employees db.
About the pitfalls
I can think about:
- Make sure that you do not have large static groups
static groups of 25K member are painful and slow down things (but usually still
usable in practice) but static groups of 100K members just get unmanageable
- Should be careful about the number of simultaneous connections
(If you have peak of connection, you may need to add consumer and a load balancer.
But usually it is not a problem because LDAP connections should be short lived)
Then the usual ds389 tuning (mainly about cache size) should be enough ...
Regards
Pierre
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 1:57 AM William Brown <william.brown@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 19 May 2022, at 00:48, Morgan Jones <morgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> We are merging our student directory (about 200,000 entries) into our existing employee directory (about 25,000 entries).
>
> They're a pair of multi-master replicas on virtual hardware that can easily be expanded if needed though hardware performance hasn't been an issue.
>
> Does this justify creating separate database for students? Aside from basic tuning are here any big pitfalls we should look out for?
I think extra databases creates more administration overhead than benefit. The benefit to extra databases is "improved write performance" generally speaking. But the trade is subtree queries are more complex to eval for the server.
It's far easier for you the admin, and also support staff if you keep it as a single db. We have done huge amounts to improve parallel reads in recent years, so you should see large gains when you change from 1.3 to 1.4 or 2.0 :)
>
> We're still on CentOS 7 for the time being:
> [root@prdds21 morgan]# rpm -qa|grep 389
> 389-admin-1.1.46-4.el7.x86_64
> 389-console-1.1.19-6.el7.noarch
> 389-dsgw-1.1.11-5.el7.x86_64
> 389-admin-console-1.1.12-1.el7.noarch
> 389-ds-1.2.2-6.el7.noarch
> 389-ds-base-libs-1.3.10.2-13.el7_9.x86_64
> 389-ds-base-1.3.10.2-13.el7_9.x86_64
> 389-adminutil-1.1.22-2.el7.x86_64
> 389-admin-console-doc-1.1.12-1.el7.noarch
> 389-ds-console-doc-1.2.16-1.el7.noarch
> 389-ds-console-1.2.16-1.el7.noarch
> [root@prdds21 morgan]#
>
> thank you,
>
> -morgan
>
>
>
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