Normalized DN Cache (v1.0)


Overview

DN normalization is an expensive task. Keeping normalized DN’s in memory should be more efficient.

Design

When attempting to normalize a DN, first check if that DN has already been normalized(we are currently using the NSPR hash table to store all the DN’s - with a bucket size of 2053). If the DN is not in the hash table, then we normalize it and add it to the hash table. Since the hash table size is limited, there is also a LRU list used to determine which DN’s can be dropped from the hash when it becomes full. When the hash table fills up, we remove 10000 of the “Least Recently Used” DN’s from the table. However, we always maintain a minimum of 1000 DN’s in the hash table.

Configuration

Under cn=config:

 nsslapd-ndn-cache-enabled:  on|off

 nsslapd-ndn-cache-max-size: <value in bytes - default is 20971520 (20mb)>

The server must be restarted for the change to take effect.

Monitoring

Normalized DN cache statistics have also been added to the backend monitor output:

 normalizedDNcachetries: 3613456    
 normalizedDNcachehits: 3587850    
 normalizedDNcachemisses: 25606    
 normalizedDNcachehitratio: 99    
 maxNormalizedDNcachesize: 104857600    
 currentNormalizedDNcachesize: 3578776    
 currentNormalizedDNcachecount: 25606    

In The Future

Last modified on 1 March 2024