Alan King

I think I found the `free` call, so this might be close-able... https://github.com/irods/irods/blob/e874106bbb1b67d7b59e7cbd112d37d200c2710a/server/core/src/rodsAgent.cpp#L593

Yes, agreed. Making a note here that the python test suite is run as the service account which does not (may not?) have permission to modify the files for the...

It looks like the collection's inherited access levels are set as part of the same transaction as the collection's creation: https://github.com/irods/irods/blob/15fa433f9cdf0e3ab91571491d5f2b0e37e1e967/plugins/database/src/db_plugin.cpp#L4903-L4916 This is already as efficient as we can get...

Thanks for looking into this! I'm definitely not a DBA. I am having trouble understanding why the string interpolation on the query would have that big of a performance impact....

We have not. So far, we have only eyeballed the code and have not reproduced the issue as of yet. In the example given by OP, are there many subcollections...

I added a list of tasks which seems to cover the scope of the work. Let me know if it needs to be adjusted (or adjust it yourself if you...

We have demonstrated that packages built for AlmaLinux work on RockyLinux with MySQL 8, but not without some effort. In alignment with what you have observed above, we had to...

Also, `izonereport` worked for me with the testing environment with the above-linked configuration and no additional effort, so I imagine there is something else in the configuration which may need...

I think this is good to go!

Still observing this failure occasionally in the run up to 4.3.0