Re: [Dovecot] LDAP auth load? (looking for advice)

On 2/17/07, Troy Engel tengel@fluid.com wrote:

One of the changes my beta testers are testing is switching from NIS to LDAP for login/auth/homedir lookups; all is working perfectly, Dovecot + PAM/nss_ldap is A-OK. No issues here, we've been using LDAP lookups on other servers for years.

I'm wondering about load, specifically if when I switch the entire company over, will the new authentication load stress my LDAP server to the point of breaking.

I run ~1100 mailboxes using Dovecot/Postfix with LDAP for all lookups. The LDAP server(s) don't even begin to sweat. LDAP is highly optimized for many, many reads/second and is used as the directory service for sites much larger than ours.

-Ben