Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

["blair christensen." <>]

On 12/12/06, Shilen Patel 
<>
 wrote:
> 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.

I checked in a small change to HEAD last night that should help
slightly.  Initial profiling suggested at 5-10% improvement.  We were
performing a redundant query for all of ALL's memberships within those
methods.  These methods are still far slower than I'd like them to be
so I will continue to look into them.

> 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.

I haven't had a chance to take a look at this yet.  However, I suspect
until we make effective memberships either asynchronous changes or
else significantly lighter weight objects this will be a problem.
I'll be looking at this some more once after I've done some more
profiling on the methods listed in #2.

> 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?

This is an area of ongoing improvement - and there is a lot of room
for improvement.