[7917] in Kerberos
Re: MAX Entries?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren Reed)
Thu Sep 5 07:31:32 1996
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au>
To: hartmans@MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 21:04:47 +1000 (EST)
Cc: ekashp@alternic.net, jefft@uoknor.edu, kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <tsl7mqauibn.fsf@planet-zorp.MIT.EDU> from "Sam Hartman" at Sep 4, 96 04:38:20 pm
In some mail I received from Sam Hartman, sie wrote
>
> >>>>> "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.
To add to this, we were using Cybersafe's Kerberos product and ran into
problems at around the 10k or so mark. We went back to them for help and
they gave us a new database to use (c-tree) which solved all our DBM
problems. However, last I heard, it was still in beta...
Cheers,
Darren
