Windl, Ulrich wrote: > Howard, > > You are right that one can read every thing from the schema, but given there > are manual pages, it would not be too much work to put the most essential > facts there. I know that developers don't like to write manual pages, and it > can be a frustrating experience to realize that most users won't read them. > Still I believe in manual pages đ
As a developer I believe in manual pages too. I also believe in only writing what is necessary and sufficient, which is what we have done for all of the code we have written. If you want anything further, contribute it yourself. It surely doesn't take specialized developer skills to do so. > Kind regards, > Ulrich Windl > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Howard Chu <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2025 5:03 PM >> To: Windl, Ulrich <[email protected]>; [email protected] >> Subject: [EXT] Re: manual page slapd-mdb.5 and "maxsize" >> >> Windl, Ulrich wrote: >>> Migrating to OpenLDAP 2.5 and MDB I hit the default 10MB limit (when >> trying to import a 6.8MB LDIF). >>> >>> Seeking how to extend the size online, I found: >>> >>> >>> >>> *maxsize*/Â <bytes>/ <https://manpages.debian.org/testing/slapd/slapd- >> mdb.5.en.html#maxsize> >>> >>> Specify the maximum size of the database in bytes. A memory map of this >> size is allocated at startup time and the database will not be allowed to >> grow >> beyond >>> this size. The default is 10485760 bytes. This setting may be changed >> upward if the configured limit needs to be increased. >>> >>> >>> >>> However itâs completely non-obvious that the name for cn=config is >> âolcDbMaxSizeâ (and not âolcMaxssizeâ). >> >> The schema is self-documenting. Just read the olcMdbConfig objectclass and >> the descriptions of all of its attributes. >> >> e.g. `ldapsearch -H ldap://xxx -b cn=schema,cn=config -s base` >> >> -- >> -- Howard Chu >> CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com >> Director, Highland Sun BLOCKEDhighlandsun[.]com/hyc/BLOCKED >> Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ > -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
