Can you explain how PKI info is compressible? I thought it was encrypted, which 
should mean you can't compress it right?


--John





On May 21, 2014, at 8:32 AM, Morgan Fainberg <morgan.fainb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The keystone team is also looking at ways to reduce the data contained in the 
> token. Coupled with the compression, this should get the tokens back down to 
> a reasonable size. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Morgan
> 
> Sent via mobile
> 
> On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, Adam Young <ayo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 05/21/2014 11:09 AM, Chuck Thier wrote:
>> There is a review for swift [1] that is requesting to set the max header 
>> size to 16k to be able to support v3 keystone tokens.  That might be fine if 
>> you measure you request rate in requests per minute, but this is continuing 
>> to add significant overhead to swift.  Even if you *only* have 10,000 
>> requests/sec to your swift cluster, an 8k token is adding almost 80MB/sec of 
>> bandwidth.  This will seem to be equally bad (if not worse) for services 
>> like marconi.
>> 
>> When PKI tokens were first introduced, we raised concerns about the 
>> unbounded size of of the token in the header, and were told that uuid style 
>> tokens would still be usable, but all I heard at the summit, was to not use 
>> them and PKI was the future of all things.
>> 
>> At what point do we re-evaluate the decision to go with pki tokens, and that 
>> they may not be the best idea for apis like swift and marconi?
> 
> Keystone tokens were slightly shrunk at the end of the last release cycle by 
> removing unnecessary data from each endpoint entry.
> 
> Compressed PKI tokens are enroute and will be much smaller.
> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> --
>> Chuck
>> 
>> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/93356/
>> 
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