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

[Rich Megginson]

Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote:
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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
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>> Subject: Re: [389-users] Large amount of users in Directory causes timeouts on  client login.
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>> Snip snip
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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
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> 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.
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That problem should have been revealed by logconv.pl

See also 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/8.1/admin/User_Account_Management-Setting_Resource_Limits_Based_on_the_Bind_DN.html
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