[PATCH] 4.6 WHATSNEW for AD DC perf

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On to, 23 helmi 2017, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> I've expanded our AD DC perf text.
> 
> Please push to 4.6
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> -- 
> Andrew Bartlett                       http://samba.org/~abartlet/
> Authentication Developer, Samba Team  http://samba.org
> Samba Developer, Catalyst IT          http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba

> From e66bd3a0173e1bcb3c487a150245fdc9dc4db588 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 06:02:01 +1300
> Subject: [PATCH] WHATSNEW: Clarify and extend the the AD DC performance
>  improvement text
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
> ---
>  WHATSNEW.txt | 25 +++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
> index 1063972..4a000f3 100644
> --- a/WHATSNEW.txt
> +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
> @@ -125,14 +125,23 @@ RPC services other than Netlogon.  The Netlogon server honours instead
>  the 'rpc server port:netlogon' option.  The default value for both
>  these options is the first available port including or after 1024.
>  
> -Improve AD performance and replication improvements
> ----------------------------------------------------
> -
> -Samba's LDB and replication code continues to improve, particularly in
> -respect to the handling of large numbers of linked attributes.  We now
> -respect an 'uptodateness vector' which will dramatically reduce the
> -over-replication of links from new DCs.  We have also made the parsing
> -of on-disk linked attributes much more efficient.
> +AD LDAP and replication performance improvements
> +------------------------------------------------
> +
> +Samba's LDB (the database holding the AD dirctory tree, as seen via
s/dirctory/directory/

> +LDAP) and our DRSUAPI replication code continues to improve,
> +particularly in respect to the handling of large numbers of objects or
> +linked attributes.
> +
> + * We now respect an 'uptodateness vector' which will dramatically
> +   reduce the over-replication of links from new DCs.
> +
> + * We have also made the parsing of on-disk linked attributes much
> +   more efficient.
> +
> + * We rely on ldb 1.1.28.  This ldb version has improved memory
> +   handling for ldb search results, improving poorly indexed and
> +   unindexed search result processing speed by around 20%.
>  
>  DNS improvements
>  ----------------
> -- 
> 2.9.3
> 


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/ Alexander Bokovoy