[Freeipa-devel] FreeIPA Footprint

[Rich Megginson]

W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> I have been piecing together an authentication and authorization solution
> using Kerberos and OpenLDAP for about two years [1]. I have recently begun
> looking at FreeIPA. I may be able to help with the integration of Mac
> OS X clients into a FreeIPA-based network.
>
> I do have a few questions about FreeIPA, related to my interest in a
> very low-footprint solution.
>
> 1. Is there a good document on reducing the memory footprint of the Fedora
> Directory Server? On my computer, FDS / ns-slapd seems to use 500 MB of
> memory. A similar configuration using OpenLDAP / slapd used only 20 MB.
>   
I'm not sure, but I believe some (all?) of that is the cache size.  By 
default Fedora DS uses a large-ish cache size.
See - http://tinyurl.com/3cyqxh and
and
http://tinyurl.com/3eyegb

> 2. Is there any interest in making the Fedora IPA packages more
> fine-grained? For example, the web-based configuration tools brings in
> quite a few dependencies. Could this be split into an separate package? In
> this case, I am interested in disk space.
>
> [1] http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/01/17/serving-apples-integrating-mac-os-x-clients-into-a-fedora-network/
>
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