[1495] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Web server update problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Icarus Sparry)
Sun Feb 18 07:40:17 1996
To: Pete Shipley <shipley@dis.org>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 17 Feb 1996 14:24:18 PST." <199602172224.OAA25807@merde.dis.org>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 10:05:53 +0000
From: Icarus Sparry <ccsis@bath.ac.uk>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>What kind of load does Kerberos put on a system?
>I was under the impression that is is fairly light
>and you single 486 server can support a large campus without
>much of a load.
Kerberos puts a very light load on a system. We use a Sun SLC running 4.1.1,
and under normal circumstances the load on it is a flat 0.00. The only time
that the load average goes much above this is when we are generating a key
for a new machine, dumping the kerberos database to a flat ascii file, or
backing up the disks using /etc/dump.
We have about 10,000 principals (people + machines) registered in the
database. I would guess that we could do the job with a 386.
Icarus
