Re: Fast massive ldif load

Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.openldap.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

--On October 7, 2009 3:32:51 PM -0400 Aaron Richton 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, iz1ksw iz1ksw wrote:
>
>> What is the fastest way (in terms of openldap settings) to perform a
>> massive load (~200MB ldif file) of data into openldap directory?
>
> Try "slapadd -q" (read slapadd(8) man page to get started).

slapadd -q is important, but so is having a large enough BDB cache in the 
DB_CONFIG file, plus setting the right number of tool threads.  I took a 
load down from 17 hours to less than 2 hours adjusting all of those 
correctly and adding -q.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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