seeker has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I have been asked to prepare a load tester for a LDAP
implementation. This implementation has added some new
elements to a directory. I am very unfamiliar with LDAP.
Will Net::LDAP allow me to use these new elements,
or will I have to write this thing in C(ugh!)?
If someone has tried something similar, please
let me know if it can be done.
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Re: Net::LDAP question
by t0mas (Priest) on Dec 13, 2000 at 17:50 UTC
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I'm not really sure what you mean by "load tester". Is it a program to
load data to the database or is it a program to generate load on the ldap
server?
If you want to test to load data into your database, Net::LDAP will do just fine.
You can access any attribute in your schema with it.
I tried to write a load generator with Net::LDAP but ldap
servers are generally _very_ fast so perl have trouble to keep
up with them. My program ate all resources from the test-machine,
which was 3 times as fast as the server, and the server was idle :)
I finally had to do a multi-threaded c thing...
If you want to do a load generator, do it in c :( sad to say ), or try
out the Net:LDAPapi (it's pretty old but might be a way to do it in perl).
/brother t0mas
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