Iplanet LDAP server on Solaris 8. Performance issue

[Daniel Muscat]

Hi everybody
I have set an iplanet Ldap directory server with 170,000. I am very
worried about its performance. When I search for an entry with an
attribute that has no index it takes about 2 minutes. When I index it
it is in order of milliseconds. Is it normal that it takes so much
time to search when no index is available

Regards
Daniel

[Mors Planch]

[email]daniel.muscat@ieee.org[/email] (Daniel Muscat) wrote in message news:<469efad8.0307302234.3734a418@posting.google. com>...

> Hi everybody
> I have set an iplanet Ldap directory server with 170,000. I am very
> worried about its performance. When I search for an entry with an
> attribute that has no index it takes about 2 minutes. When I index it
> it is in order of milliseconds. Is it normal that it takes so much
> time to search when no index is available
>
> Regards
> Daniel

I have seen the exact same thing on our similar configuration. The
indexes help a great deal. Our ldap guy tuned some memory settings,
it helped but never as much as the indexes.

Mors