Re: Perfomance with ACLs

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 06:59 PM 10/19/99 +0200, Joaquin Galeano wrote:
>I'm trying to set up acls with our directory in order to limit access to
>administrators. The thing is that with those controls we have a very
>very bad performance. Is that normal? 

It's easy to write poorly performing access controls...

>Is there a way to reduce the performace lose?

A few general hints:

1) combine rules
2) use efficient regular expressions
3) avoid expensive acl features

Also note that you might want to experiment with a differnet
regex library.

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Kurt D. Zeilenga <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
OpenLDAP Project <http://www.OpenLDAP.org/>