saslauthd performance

[lst_hoe01 at kwsoft.de]

Zitat von Axel Grupe <grupe at osnanet.de>:

> I performed a test for my saslauthd, it makes 1000 authentications
> within ~ 6,65 seconds (not bad!), and it still uses pam-> mysql.
> If I make the same test with saslauthd using ldap it goes "down" to ~
> 6,625. In deed these where cached by saslauthd.
> When I restart saslauthd the performance is for mysql : ~ 11,22 and for
> ldap ~14,72 seconds, which is in deed a little bit funny!
> But it doesn't matter because of  cyrus won't get that fast to come over
> this.
> (at least i use this PARAMS="${PARAMS}  -n 5 -c -s 2048 -t 600 ")

Be aware that the pam_mysql module is suspectible to leak memory in saslauthd
config with -n > 0.
If you have a version of pam_mysql without this problem let me know.

Regards

Andreas

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