Caching Net::LDAP connections

[Yann R. <at...@at...>]

Hi,

Ok, you all know me by now, that loveable person who is running into all
sorts of problems :)  Now I'm asking more for advice.  How would you
suggest I cache a Net::LDAP connection in a mod_perl system?  Do you
think its a good idea?  My test script which authenticates and uses
searches is running at a cool 1.8 hits a second, whereas the DBI
connection to the PostgreSQL server is cooking up 68 (saturating the
10Mb link between the two machines - during the LDAP test 87% idle,
during the DBI test 95% idle).  I will need to spawn an additional
connection every time for authentication of users (which gets
disconnected immediatley afterwards), but that is more of a one time
affair as a session powered by the database is created.  Lookups in LDAP
are still done for group information, odd attributes, etc, where a cache
seems useful.

Yann
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