[Kolab-devel] Kolab and OpenPKG

[Dieter Kluenter]

Hi,

Martin Konold <martin at max.kde.org> writes:

> Am Freitag, 23. Mai 2003 09:38 schrieb Stephan Buys:
>
> Hi Stephan,
>
>> I want to try it for virtual... 
>
> Ok, I see.
>
>> If you have a Kolab machine with more than 1000 users the file I/O might
>> get a bit high if the virtual file is rewritten everytime a change occurs
>> in LDAP.
[...]
> I was especially thinking about very large installations and I am wondering if 
> a local db based on a file is not much faster than LDAP queries for postfix.
>
> This is the reason why I think that it is possible that introducing direct 
> LDAP support for postfix is maybe the wrong solution for the potential 
> scalability problem.

A well indexed directory server is much faster then parsing a hashed
file.

-Dieter


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