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Re: MAX Entries?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Wed Sep 4 17:02:20 1996

To: Eugene Kashpureff <ekashp@alternic.net>
Cc: Jeff Taylor <jefft@uoknor.edu>, kerberos@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 04 Sep 1996 16:38:20 -0400
In-Reply-To: Eugene Kashpureff's message of Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:13:33 -0700 (PDT)

>>>>> "Eugene" == Eugene Kashpureff <ekashp@alternic.net> writes:

    Eugene> On 3 Sep 1996, Jeff Taylor wrote:
    >> What is the largest number of entries someone has Kerberos vr 5
    >> supporting? We have 20,000+ entries in our database & are
    >> starting to see performance

    Eugene> We tried doing a test of a large scale data base, using
    Eugene> bullk test entries/users ... went to hell w/degredation
    Eugene> after 15K.  Kerb just don't scale real well.


	Most of this is more of a DBM problem than a Kerberos
problem.  If you replace the backend, you should get better
performance.  

    Eugene> At your name service,

    Eugene> Eugene Kashpureff, ALTERNIC.NET

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