The following example demonstrates measuring search performance. $ grep ^uid: /path/to/Example.ldif | sed -e "s/uid: //" > names.txt $ searchrate -p 1389 -b dc=example,dc=com -A -F -c 4 -t 4 \ -g "rand(names.txt)" "(uid=%s)" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Throughput Response Time (ops/second) (milliseconds) recent average recent average 99.9% 99.99% 99.999% err/sec Entries/Srch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1475.9 1475.9 0.423 0.423 6.938 126.236 126.236 0.0 1.0 2596.5 2038.4 0.254 0.315 6.866 12.980 126.236 0.0 1.0 3210.7 2428.2 0.205 0.267 5.733 11.710 126.236 0.0 1.0 3080.5 2591.0 0.215 0.252 5.733 10.541 126.236 0.0 1.0 3236.9 2720.1 0.203 0.240 5.258 10.514 126.236 0.0 1.0 3181.1 2796.8 0.207 0.234 5.258 10.384 126.236 0.0 1.0 3202.5 2854.8 0.206 0.229 4.825 10.384 126.236 0.0 1.0 ^C