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complex ACL and performance impact

darionis — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:08:49 GMT

Hello,

I have rather complex requirements for access rights, it will end up with lots of groups and users assigned to the node (folder) without inheritng permissions. I wonder will it affect search and retreival performance? It seems to work fine in dev environemnt with small number of folders and limited number of groups but I would like to know what happens when repository starts to grow? I am worried that permision evaluation may impact performance.

Is there any general recomendation to stay on the safe side?

Thank you!

Re: complex ACL and performance impact

kaynezhang — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:22:40 GMT

Yes I think seting up lots of specific permissions for users or groups at a folder level without inheritng permissions will impact performance. You'd better try to optimize your ACL policy, try to re-use your Acls, use inherit and use groups as much as possible.

Re: complex ACL and performance impact

EddieMay — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 16:39:45 GMT

Hi @darionis

You should also consider implications for search performance in Share too.

HTH