Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 Deployment Planning Guide

Summary of Observations

Table 6–3 records what was observed in this example. It includes neither server process size, nor default database cache file size.


Note –

Your observations made through empirical testing for your deployment are likely to differ significantly from those shown here.


Table 6–3 Sizing Summary

Number of Entries 

LDIF File Size 

Disk with Default Indexes 

Disk with Five Additional Indexes 

Database Cache 

Entry Cache 

0 [The suffix has been created, but is empty.]

n/a 

n/a 

n/a 

n/a 

n/a 

10,000 

5.7 megabytes 

19 megabytes 

26 megabytes 

32 megabytes 

55 megabytes 

100,000 

57 megabytes 

142 megabytes 

163 megabytes 

200 megabytes 

550 megabytes 

1,000,000 

573 megabytes 

1300 megabytes 

1500 megabytes 

1700 megabytes (default indexing) 

n/a 

In an actual deployment, you may have significantly larger entries and more indexed attributes. Do your own empirical testing and tuning before ordering hardware.