2.2. Hardware Requirements

On all platforms, you need:

The table below contains some guidelines for disk space and memory requirements depending on the number of entries managed by your Directory Server. This assumes entries in the LDIF file are approximately 100 bytes in size and only the recommended indexes are configured. If you are using larger entries, make sure that at least four times the size of the LDIF file is available on disk.

Number of EntriesDisk Space and Memory Required
10,000 - 250,000 entriesFree disk space: 2 GB Free memory: 256 MB
250,000 - 1,000,000 entriesFree disk space: 4 GB Free memory: 512 MB
Over 1,000,000 entriesFree disk space: 8 GB Free memory: 1 GB