[29337] in Kerberos
Re: kerberos capacity planning questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Wed Feb 20 15:52:09 2008
To: Tim Metz <tpmetz@ucdavis.edu>
In-Reply-To: <47BC9077.6080001@ucdavis.edu> (Tim Metz's message of "Wed\,
20 Feb 2008 12\:41\:27 -0800")
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:51:10 -0800
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Tim Metz <tpmetz@ucdavis.edu> writes:
> Greetings,
>
> As part of a campus working group currently evaluating Kerberos product
> options, I have been tasked with researching the following two
> requirements for MIT Kerberos:
>
> (1) Must house more than 200,000 accounts.
> (2) Must issue more than 3 tickets per second.
MIT Kerberos can trivially satisfy both of those with any reasonable
server hardware. We were doing more authentications per second than that
on a now-obsolete Dell 1750. We're now running the primary Kerberos
server, which handles almost all the authentications on a Dell 1950.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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