[SSSD] RFC - disable the cleanup task by default

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Wed Apr 8 09:59:27 UTC 2015


On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 11:56:59AM +0200, Pavel Březina wrote:
> On 04/07/2015 05:08 PM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 05:02:33PM +0200, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> >>On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 04:39:30PM +0200, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> >>>So unless account_cache_expiration is set to something sensible, only
> >>>empty groups are removed and that's quite a corner case.
> >>
> >>Correction - also groups who have never logged in might be removed. This
> >                     ~~~~~~
> >                     users, sorry
> >>could be useful for pruning info after "ls -l" on directory like /tmp
> >>for example.
> >>
> >>But my opinion on the whole cleanup task still stands.
> 
> Sure we can disable it, it don't oppose.
> 
> Or we can also increase the default value for ldap_purge_cache_timeout to
> days instead of hours.

This wouldn't help the biggest problem though which is when the cache cleanup
starts for a huge database on a busy server, the single transaction blocks
any other transaction..



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