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H1: Tuning

This is perhaps one of the most important chapters in the guide, because if 
you have not tuned {{slapd}}(8) correctly or grasped how to design your
directory and environment, you can expect very poor performance.

Reading, understanding and experimenting using the instructions and information
in the following sections, will enable you to fully understand how to tailor 
your directory server to your specific requirements.

Various factors can play a part in how your directory performs on your chosen 
hardware and environment. We will attempt to discuss these here.

It should be noted that the following information has been collected over time
from our community based FAQ. So obviously the benefit of this real world experience
and advice should be of great value to the reader.


H2: Performance Factors

We will attempt to discuss how various parts of the environment in which your 
directory runs can play a part in how well it performs.


H3: Memory

Scale your cache to use available memory and increase system memory if you can.

More info here.


H3: Disks

Use fast subsystems. Put each database and logs on separate disks.

Example showing config settings


H3: Network Topology

http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/363.html

Drawing here.


H3: Directory Layout Design

Reference to other sections and good/bad drawing here.


H3: Expected Usage

Discussion.


H2: Indexes

http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/42.html
http://www.connexitor.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=103#body
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.sendmail/browse_frm/thread/17c5c0b94ad1fc58/f870758659375718?lnk=gst&q=hyc&rnum=12&hl=en#f870758659375718


H2: Tuning Logging

http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/80.html


H2: BDB/HDB database cache size

http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1076.html
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1075.html