[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 885 optimize indirect member calculation

[Rob Crittenden]

Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Oct 2011, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> When calculating indirect membership of a group all members are
>> examined and if those have members, those are added as well. This
>> does not need to be done when the member in question is a user or a
>> host as they cannot have members.
>>
>> For large groups this is a significant performance improvement (as
>> well as reducing unnecessary load on 389-ds).
> Works for me. However, shouldn't we expand this to all terminal
> objects rather than users and hosts?
>
> Something like attached patch? The containers list should be sorted by
> probability of encountering the container in real life, with users and
> hosts to be at the beginning.

Pushed to master and ipa-2-1.

389-ds is still leaking something but this mitigates it somewhat and 
generally reduces the load when showing large groups.

rob