Grouper Developers Forum

[Shilen Patel <>]

> > > 4.  Performing a group search takes about 20-30 seconds even if no
> > > results are returned.
> > That is less surprising. Given the number of groups you have any 
> > search is likely to return a large number of results - however, 
> > depending on the context the UI will then try to filter* the list - 
> > which may result in no results.
> >
> > *By checking if the current Subject has a specific privilege, or one 
> > of a set of privileges.
> >
> > I think the API is doing a %term% type match which may not be 
> > efficient against a large database
> >
> > If you do a search which cannot possibly return a result e.g. 
> > ZZZZZZZ, how long does that take?
>
> I'll respond to this later when our new database server is ready.

On the new database server, searching for something like ZZZZZZZZ takes 
about a second.  However, other searches that have results before the UI 
filters them all out still take a very long time (a few minutes in some 
cases) if what I'm searching for is part of the stem of thousands of groups.

-- Shilen