[Beowulf] Poll - Directory implementation

[Michael Di Domenico]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 1:51 PM Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at rutgers.edu> wrote:
> On 10/24/2018 01:44 PM, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
> > i don't want to diverge this thread from the OP, but how fast does
> > ldap really need to be?  i have ~700 machines talking to two
> > openldap servers w/ ssl enabled.  we have to run nslcd on the
> > clients, but all is well
>
> It's somewhat relevant, given someone's consideration of migration.
>
> Faster than ours! We have a single at the moment (the VM is movable so
> we don't really need it for high availability), but we are having
> problems with certain operations (like ls -la /home). Our case appears
> as if it might be related to our VM infrastructure or some tuning
> parameter that is very wrong. I've done the usual things (indexing on
> uidNumber and gidNumber, etc.) but haven't had a ton of luck so far.

dunno, there's a lot of variables at play to make a suggestion.  but i
don't recall doing anything overlay special.  nslcd was one thing we
absolutely had to run, we tried to avoid it at first, but the lookups
across the enterprise crushed the server.  with nslcd running the ldap
server load is generally low.  we can spike it though with a
large/fast rsync or someother filer heavy action, but most of our
users cannot.

how many objects do you have in your tree?  are you storing more then
passwd/shadow/group info?