[Fedora-directory-users] Performance

[Howard Chu]

> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:12:57 -0400
 > From: "Vampire D" <vampired at gmail.com>

> I heard it from Cisco when working with them on a project as they claims it
 > has a hard time keeping up under a heavy load.

In my experience, the Cisco folks don't have a clue what they're talking about. 
We recently had a customer come to us asking why OpenLDAP doesn't support 
LDAPv3 (it does; it has since 2000), saying their Cisco product wasn't able to 
Bind to OpenLDAP. Cisco of course claimed they were supporting LDAPv3 correctly 
and that the OpenLDAP server was defective, but we asked the customer for a 
network trace and they saw that the Cisco product was actually sending an 
LDAPv2 Bind request. Your mileage may vary of course, but it's best to take 
anything Cisco says about LDAP with a large helping of salt.

 >>On 7/16/07, Norman Gaywood <ngaywood at une.edu.au> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 7/13/07, Vampire D <vampired at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > > As I understand it, OpenLDAP doesn't perform all that well under a high
>>> > > load.   How does FDS perform in comparison to other LDAP implmentations
>> > like
>>> > > OpenLDAP and Sun?
>> >
>> > Interesting. Where did you get the information that OpenLDAP does not
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator
>> > University of New England, Armidale,
>> > NSW 2351, Australia
>> >

-- 
   -- Howard Chu
   Chief Architect, Symas Corp.  http://www.symas.com
   Director, Highland Sun        http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
   Chief Architect, OpenLDAP     http://www.openldap.org/project/