SP Startup takes 20+ minutes

[Scott Koranda]

> > depending on the machine but on a reasonable one it takes > 20minutes for
> > the shibd to initialise taking 100% of (one) CPU with almost constant memory
> > usage.
> 
> How much RAM is available?
> 
> > We harvest multiple metadata feeds including edugain which means ~ 40MB
> > of xml data.
> 
> Lots of SPs do that, it's not fun, but it doesn't take 20 minutes.
> 
> > What options do I have to speed up the SP startup?
> 
> None. If the system is short of memory, you can fix that, but that code is not going to get any better. It's not mine, and I wouldn't know how to fix it. It would take a total rewrite in any case.
>  

Would the project consider a RFE so that once a signature
filter is successfully applied to an XML metadata provider
with a 'url' option the file pointed to by 'backingFilePath'
is somehow marked as "trusted" and during a restart that
local file can be read first with other filters applied but
not the signature filter?

The idea being that I trust my local file system to preserve
the bits well enough that I do not need to check the signature
again on a restart, only on subsequent downloads.

Thanks,

Scott K for LIGO