[Samba] Ldap performance

[Paul Gienger]

>Is it normal to have 36 slapd process, each using 33 MB?
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I'm just guessing here, but that doesn't sound right.  I don't think you 
should normally have any more than one, but maybe I'm mistaken.  I've 
never seen it.

>Another thing that may be slowing the ldap is that I need to use scope =sub
>in my ldap.conf to find users and computers:
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So you're saying that in your ldap.conf you have things configured like so?
nss_base_passwd        dc=homelan,dc=com,dc=br?sub

Or is it just configured as ou=Users,dc=homelan,dc=com,dc=br?sub

If it's the former, I'd guess that isn't helping things out if you have 
more than the 3 base OUs you listed.

>What I can do to make it work faster?
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Assuming your ldap configuration is slowing you down a bunch, the 
openldap list could probably help you out on your tweaking to get it 
moving better, maybe with things like indexing, otherwise perhaps you 
need a dedicated ldap machine or some kind of load balancing.

Curious, how fast is an ldapsearch at peak time?  Hows the load on the 
machine look?

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