By default qmail-ldap on deliveries searches for (|(mail=emailaddressspecified)(mailalternateaddress=emailaddressspecified))
So if you don't have an index on mailalternateaddress it will be slow when doing lookups even if you aren't using the mailalternateaddress field James On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, David Stults wrote: > That shouldn't matter. I don't have a mailAlternateAddress index, even > though it's in slapd.conf, and I still do POP3 lookups quickly (fast enough > that I can not measure a noticable delay). My OpenLDAP has about 25k > entries right now. > > What kind of CPU usage is OpenLDAP taking, and is it getting any large > queries from other sources that are not for indexed attributes? If it's > single threaded (can't see why it would be in a SMP environment, but just in > case), it'll only answer one query at a time, which hurts performance rather > dramatically. > > Dave >
