[Zope] LDAP UserFolder with dead slow LDAP server

[Andrew Veitch]

What LDAP server are you using?

We found spending a bit of time with OpenLDAP's config file speed things up
hugely. Make sure you are using indexes otherwise searches can take a
l-o-n-g time.

A

> From: huima at huima.net
> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 21:06:41 +0300 (EEST)
> To: zope at zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] LDAP UserFolder with dead slow LDAP server
> 
> Hi all,
> we are facing few problems with LDAP UserFolder in cases where
> authentication from the server takes long - even 20 seconds. For that time
> the thread of Zope naturlly freezes to wait for the server to return data.
> This is problematic since the centraliced LDAP-server will for sure return
> a lot of the queries in that fashion - and we really can't have the
> application to freeze down if X number of users try to login.
> Has anyone implemented anything that would come over similar problems with
> external authentication sources?
> 
> -huima
> 
> 
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