Environment
Sun Solaris 8
eDirectory 8.7.3.9
Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 for Solaris
Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 for All Platforms
Novell Identity Manager
eDirectory 8.7.3.9
Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 for Solaris
Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 for All Platforms
Novell Identity Manager
Situation
Customer upgraded from 8.7.3.1 to 8.7.3.9, immediately noticed a
drop in cache performance within database cache screens in
iMonitor. Also noticed the IDM Active directory driver
performance was severely affected - lookup of associations was
reduced from 6 seconds to 40+ seconds.
Resolution
Increased allocated database cache to 1.5gb and block cache
percentage to 25%
Additional Information
It should be noted that in most cases 1gb is sufficient as per
KB 3178089 - eDirectory best practices guide, however this is only
a rule of thumb and care should be taken to baseline your directory
performance and tune as necessary according to the information
provided within iMonitor.