[389-users] Large amount of users in Directory causes timeouts on client login.

[Gerrard Geldenhuis]

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>From: 389-users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [389-users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] on behalf of Gerrard Geldenhuis [Gerrard.Geldenhuis at betfair.com]
>Sent: 21 July 2010 16:37
>To: General discussion list for the 389 Directory server project.
>Subject: Re: [389-users] Large amount of users in Directory causes timeouts on  client login.
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>>> Any thoughts or steering in the right direction would be appreciated.
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>>run logconv.pl
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>>> The documentation states a few default indexes that gets created and I would have thought that these would be adequate for effectively finding a user in a >>larger database.
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>running logconv.pl has turned up empty handed no recommendations or problems. I can do a ldapsearch from the client which turns up all of the neccesary >information. nscd is not running so can't interfere. It looks like a client problem. I am digging further...
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>Regards

Problem turns out to be simple, the authenticator user that we used to bind to the directory runs into a adminLimitExceeded when looking at a tcpdump. I could also recreate the problem by doing the search from the command line. The solution I think will be to either implement some additional filtering when doing a search or increasing the search limit for this user. This same limit does not exist for the cn=Directory Manager user.

Regards

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