Re: [389-users] Finger slow and optimizing performance

[Rich Megginson]

Tim Hartmann wrote:
>  Rich Megginson wrote:
>    
> > Andrey Ivanov wrote:
> >     
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >> There may be several attributes of interest to you as far as the
> >> memory consumption is concerned
> >>
> (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/8.1/cli/Configuration_Comma...)
> >> :
> >> nsslapd-dbcachesize
> >> nsslapd-cachememsize for every backend (by default, your data is in
> >> cn=userRoot,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config)
> >> nsslapd-import-cachesize (used only during ldif import)
> >>       
> > Start with nsslapd-cachememsize - make that as large as possible and
> > minimize nsslapd-dbcachesize
> >     
> >> You can adjust the corresponding values by monitoring the attributes
> >> like currententrycachesize or entrycachehitratio of 
> >> cn=monitor,cn=userRoot,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config
> >>
> (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/8.1/cli/Configuration_Comma...)
> >>
> >>
> >>       
> > You can also use the logconv.pl script to examine the access log to
> > see what types of searches are being done and which are not indexed
> > properly.
> >
> >     
>
>  So after playing with logconv a bit, it looked like finger was making
>  this call in the logs...
>
>  [26/Jun/2009:10:59:36 -0400] conn=283289 op=-1 fd=80 closed - B1
>  [26/Jun/2009:10:59:36 -0400] conn=283289 op=2 RESULT err=11 tag=101
>  nentries=0 etime=1 notes=U
>  [26/Jun/2009:10:59:35 -0400] conn=283289 op=2 SRCH
>  base="ou=really,ou=long,o=name,dc=school,dc=edu" scope=2
>  filter="(objectClass=posixAccount)" attrs="uid userPassword uidNumber
>  gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass"
>  [26/Jun/2009:10:59:35 -0400] conn=283289 op=1 RESULT err=0 tag=101
>  nentries=1 etime=0
>  [26/Jun/2009:10:59:35 -0400] conn=283289 op=1 SRCH
>  base="ou=systems,ou=services,o=hascs,dc=fas,dc=harvard,dc=edu" scope=2
>  filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=foo))" attrs="uid
> userPassword
>  uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description
>  objectClass"
>  [26/Jun/2009:10:59:35 -0400] conn=283289 op=0 RESULT err=0 tag=97
>  nentries=0 etime=0 dn=""
>  [26/Jun/2009:10:59:35 -0400] conn=283289 op=0 BIND dn="" method=128
>  version=3
>  [26/Jun/2009:10:59:35 -0400] conn=283289 fd=80 slot=80 connection from
>  1.2.3.4 to 4.3.2.1
>
>
>
>  But even after indexing "uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn
>  homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass"  finger still
>  responds slower then it does on comparison to the older openLDAP
>  servers... where we don't do indexing on all of these attributes, AND
>  still claims that I'm running an search that hasn't been indexed!   I'm
>  I missing something glaringly obvious? 
>     
You only need to index the attributes used for searching:
(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=foo))
You need an equality index on objectClass (which should already be 
there, it is one of the default indexes) and an equality index on uid 
(again, should already be there).

The problem is this:
[26/Jun/2009:10:59:36 -0400] conn=283289 op=2 RESULT err=11 tag=101 
nentries=0 etime=1 notes=U
[26/Jun/2009:10:59:35 -0400] conn=283289 op=2 SRCH
base="ou=really,ou=long,o=name,dc=school,dc=edu" scope=2
filter="(objectClass=posixAccount)" attrs="uid userPassword uidNumber
gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass"

The notes=U and err=11 mean that either the lookthrough limit has been 
exceeded, or you need to increase your nsslapd-idlistscanlimit:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/8.1/cli/Configuration_Comma...

This is not a good search anyway - the client is basically asking for 
all entries that match objectClass=posixAccount which could be thousands 
or more - what does the client intend to do with all of those entries?
>  Thanks!
>
>  Tim
>
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