Re: [exim] Lsearch performance

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Neil Youngman
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Lsearch performance
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Neil Youngman wrote:

> There's a thread in the archive about LDAP performance vs lsearch.
> Someone stated that lsearch was really slow.
>
> I'm interested in how true that is. Has anyone got any actual data on
> the speed of lsearch lookups?


If the file is small then lsearch should be fine. We use cdb for large
tables, which we build from lsearch files using a Perl script. (The
cdbmake-12 awk script that comes with the cdb utils is too shoddy.)

Tony.
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