[SSSD] How well do sssd scale?

Jeff Schroeder jeffschroed at gmail.com
Thu May 6 14:09:17 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
>
> I am testing sssd and the pam and nss package on Ubuntu here at the
> university, and ran into unexpected behaviour.  sssd_be uses 100% CPU
> most of the time, and top report that its virtual size is 244 MB and
> its resident size is 152 MB.  I've configured sssd to use LDAP as a
> directory and as the authentication method.
>
> The university have a lot of users and groups, and I wonder if this is
> why the process is so big and use so much CPU.  How well do sssd
> scale?  Can it handle a directory with 100 000 users and 10 000
> groups?
>
> Happy hacking,
> --
> Petter Reinholdtsen

What version of sssd do you have and could you please post your
configuration file? There was an issue with 1.0.5 and certain
configurations that would cause 100% cpu usage.

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Jeff Schroeder

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