Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Tom Barton <>]

Some clarification requested below. -Tom

Shilen Patel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have Grouper 1.1 installed with about 72,000 groups and 460,000 
> members.  After adding all these groups and members, I've noticed 
> performance issues like the following:
>
>
> 1.  In the Grouper UI, using the "Manage Groups" link stalls.  However, 
> I have no problems using "All Groups".

Does this occur generally, just for people that belong to something like 
Group X, or some other circumstance?

> 2.  Since the ALL subject is granted read and view privileges to all of 
> the groups, method calls like Member.hasRead() and Member.hasView() can 
> take hours.

Do you mean it can take hours to list the GrouperAll subject's 
privileges, or those of some other subject?

> 3.  I have an instance where a Group X has admin privileges to about 
> 20,000 groups.   It takes about an hour to add a member to Group X 
> because the new member is indirectly given admin privileges to the 
> 20,000 groups.

Can you tell us what RDBMS technology is in use? What all is between 
grouper and the groups database? Same question for subject sources.

> Have issues like these been addressed?  Will they be resolved in a 
> future version of Grouper?  Any tips on how I can perform these 
> operations faster?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Shilen