Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Shilen Patel <>]

Thanks for all the quick responses!  I look forward to hearing about 
these performance improvements. 

Thanks,

-- Shilen


blair christensen. wrote:
> 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.