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List:       openldap-devel
Subject:    Re: Dynamically managed groups, etc
From:       Howard Chu <hyc () symas ! com>
Date:       2024-02-26 19:29:42
Message-ID: d64b68c3-20be-ef37-4a74-5ed0eadaebb6 () symas ! com
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David Coutadeur wrote:
> 
> Thank you Howard (and openldap core team) for this synthesis of the current and \
> future state of dynamic membership devs. 
> Indeed, some of my customers were suffering from dynlist performances, and the \
> decision was taken to go back to more static features (like memberOf). 
> For now I did not test nestgroup overlay, but I'll give a look for next \
> installations. Do you have any idea in which version of OpenLDAP nestgroup will be \
> officially released?

Most likely 2.7 later this year. But I see no reason why it wouldn't work in 2.5/2.6.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Le 26/02/2024 à 16:54, Howard Chu a écrit  :
> > The recent work on expanding dynamic group functionality in the dynlist overlay \
> > seems to have been a bad idea. It makes an already fairly complex overlay even \
> > more complicated, and it puts a lot more work into the read side of operations, \
> > which adds up to quite noticeable slowdowns in search performance on deployments \
> > that make heavy use of dynamic groups with large memberships.



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  -- Howard Chu
  CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
  Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
  Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/


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