Performance testing Kerberos

Henry B. Hotz hotz at jpl.nasa.gov
Fri Jul 9 03:34:17 EDT 2004


We benchmarked significantly more than 50,000 authentications/hour  
against a Sun Ultra-1 running Solaris 8 and Heimdal 0.6.1.  The  
database contained about 25,000 principals at the time.  Does that  
help?

I have no idea if MIT or Solaris 9 would be faster or slower.  There's  
a long history of Kerberos being run on hand-me-down hardware and  
performing just fine.

On Jul 8, 2004, at 9:00 AM, kerberos-request at mit.edu wrote:

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> Is anyone aware of Kerberos being tested from a performance testing
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> use Mercury's Loadrunner for testing and am unable to find any
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