Dear Master Monks,

In Catalyst, LDAP User Auto_complete and arrays with grep I mentioned the amount of users in a Directory at around 500,000 - 1,000,000. This is not uncommon and I have seen up to 1.5 - 2 Million.

So my question is, if during an LDAP search for the auto_complete in the above node, the directory returns say 250,000 users that begin with the letter "g", however unlikely, and the usernames are say a max of 6 letters long, is it possible to determine the rough size of the Array the holds these results?

Kind of 6 x 1 byte = 1 username, x 500,000? Plus what ever Net::LDAP uses to store the results?

2-3MB to be safe?

It's just for a rough idea.

Not sure if I am even on the right track.

Many thanks,
Gavin.

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In reply to Way to predict Array Memory Size for returned LDAP Searches? by ghenry

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