Re: Dynamically managed groups, etc

Howard Chu <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:29:42 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.openldap.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Coutadeur wrote:
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> Thank you Howard (and openldap core team) for this synthesis of the cur=
rent and future state of dynamic membership devs.
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> Indeed, some of my customers were suffering from dynlist performances, =
and the decision was taken to go back to more static features (like membe=
rOf).
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> For now I did not test nestgroup overlay, but I'll give a look for next=
 installations. Do you have any idea in which version of OpenLDAP nestgro=
up will be
> officially released?

Most likely 2.7 later this year. But I see no reason why it wouldn't work=
 in 2.5/2.6.
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> Regards,
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> Le 26/02/2024 =C3=A0 16:54, Howard Chu a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:
>> The recent work on expanding dynamic group functionality in the dynlis=
t overlay seems to have been
>> a bad idea. It makes an already fairly complex overlay even more compl=
icated, and it puts a lot more
>> work into the read side of operations, which adds up to quite noticeab=
le slowdowns in search performance
>> on deployments that make heavy use of dynamic groups with large member=
ships.



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  Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
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