| Title: | X.500 Directory Services | 
| Notice: | Sprt: FORTY2::X500_SUPPORT, Kits: 216.*, try dir/titl=OFFICIAL | 
| Moderator: | FORTY2::PULLEN | 
| Created: | Tue Jan 30 1990 | 
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 1016 | 
| Total number of notes: | 4299 | 
    
    
    
    
    Hello,
    
    My customer is using LDAP queries from a Netscape Browser.
    
    The customer wants to know how to limit searches in the DIT. An example
    is when a user performs a search as such:
    
    query: search /c=us/o=beoing
    
    Boeing has thousands and thousands of entries. The amounts of data from 
    these queries will crash the server. Is there any way to control this
    on the DSA?
    
    Please advise.
    
    Thank you in advance for your support.
    
    Randy
    csc/at
       
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| 981.1 | FORTY2::PALKA | Thu Mar 06 1997 09:42 | 9 | ||
|     The NCL characteristic 'size limit' controls the number of search
    results the dsa can return.
    
    However the DSA might use quite a lot of memory for holding
    intermediate information before the results get generated.
    You should  make sure that you are running the latest version of the
    DSA to avoid problems in this area.
    
    Andrew
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| 981.2 | FORTY2::PULLEN | Julian Pullen | Thu Mar 13 1997 10:08 | 9 | |
| Randy,
    The Infobroker LDAP server is controlled by dua.defaults.
    As the ibxd daemon run under root it will effected
    by the dua.defaults for root in / and the system wide
    ones in /etc. You can limit the number of results by
    editing system wide defaults /etc/dua.defaults.
    Julian
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