[Kolab-devel] Kolab and OpenPKG

[Martin Konold]

Am Freitag, 23. Mai 2003 09:16 schrieb Dieter Kluenter:

Hi Dieter,

> > 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.

Really? Any pointers to some benchmarks? I was expecting that the overhead of 
client/server is always higher than a hashed file. Basically I expect a 
hashed file to be memory mapped and the access to be basically instant 
because the hashes directly lead to an index in an array.

Regards,
--- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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