The performance of Shibboleth

[Kevin P. Foote]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, HaiJun Deng wrote:

> In that post, it says "A single c1.medium instance running the IdP in Jetty
> without Terracotta and a million user records and a standard set of
> attributes in an LDAP directory with authentication randomly choosing one of
> them can handle roughly 65 transactions per second."
> it seems that the SP does nothing except sending the authentication request.
>
> Anyway, I am here not to belittle the performance of the shibboleth, i just
> wonder what the usual throughput the IdP can achieve without thinking of the
> effection of SP and APP.

And as you have seen .. those are the only figures that are posted. I do
believe that your best bet is to spin up your 5k+ tps App with a
properly tuned web server and SP combo and see what you get.

As I said before I'd tend to believe the statement(s) by Chad regarding
IdP performance.


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