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[Rahul Doshi <>]

Ah, that makes perfect sense.  Thank you for the explanation.

Rahul

On 10/17/12 11:43 AM, "Tom Zeller" 
<>
 wrote:

>> I provisioned roughly 2000 groups with 500000 membership using
>>real-time
>> changelog provisioning and it took about 6.5 hours.  I then deleted all
>>the
>> groups from LDAP target and re-provisioned them using bulksync and it
>>took
>> just less then an hour.  I am surprised by the difference in
>>provisioning
>> times using loader daemon versus bulksync.  I am wondering if there is
>> something I might have misconfigured in the real-time provisioning or
>>it is
>> expected behavior.  I am running PSP 2.1.2.
>
>Probably not a misconfiguration. Perhaps thinking of it this way will
>help :
>
>Consider 500,000 ldap operations of the form
>
> dn: cn=group,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=edu
> changetype: modify
> add: member
> member: dn=cn=subject0,ou=people,dc=example,dc=edu
> -
>
>and less than 500,000 ldap operations of the form
>
> dn: cn=group,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=edu
> changetype: modify
> add: member
> member: dn=cn=subject0,ou=people,dc=example,dc=edu
> member: dn=cn=subject1,ou=people,dc=example,dc=edu
> member: dn=cn=subject2,ou=people,dc=example,dc=edu
> ...
> -
>
>Depending on the depth of your group nesting and average number of
>memberships per group, the bulk operations should be faster when
>provisioning everything. However, for a large group, bulk operations
>are slower when provisioning a single membership (because the psp
>reads everything when doing a diff). Directory performance may vary
>based upon indexing and referential integrity too.