I set up Confluence to integrate with our LDAP infrastructure, to take advantage of protecting spaces with LDAP groups. We had performance issues but I increased the cache timeout in the confluence-coherence-cache-config.xml properties file as documented here.
I then thought everything was well as performance seemed “OK”, however reports of poor performance, like 15-25 seconds to get the dashboard page, started to trickle through to me. It turned out I had been in a fool’s paradise, as if you are in the confluence-administrators group all the permissions checks are bypassed.
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