On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:20:04AM -0800, Mike Friedman wrote: > Looking down the road around here, we may wind up having to populate our > KDC with alumni, in addition to the students, staff and 'affiliates' that > we have now. Which means possibly exceeding 1M principals in the database. > Does anyone know if I should anticipate problems when/if the database gets > that large? Are there folks out there actually running a KDC with anywhere > near that many principals?
I don't think you'll have problems with the Berkeley DB KDB - you can certainly simulate a large KDB to check for any problems here. The problems, if you experience any, will be related: - perf knees in BDB? I doubt it. - load; how many of those 1M records are going to be active? - replication; how long does it take to kprop a database with 1M records? How long does it take to dump such a KDB? I have implemented an incremental replication system in-house for dealing with replication. I recommend you look into doing the same. > Thanks. > > Mike Cheers, Nico -- -DISCLAIMER: an automatically appended disclaimer may follow. By posting- -to a public e-mail mailing list I hereby grant permission to distribute- -and copy this message.- Visit our website at http://www.ubswarburg.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments.
