Re: slapd read-only slave replica

[email protected] Thu, 20 May 2010 15:29:48 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.network.openldap.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>
> Hello,
>
> Does it make any sens to enable indexing of any attribute on read-only
> slave syncrepl replica? I mean, isn't it just waste of resources, or,
> actually, is not a waste a resources at all, since replica is read-only
> and does not write anything anyway? This, I think, apply to any version of
> openldap.

Indexes speed up reads and slow down writes.  That's why they are
especially useful on replicas.

p.