Custom Directory in Crowd - methods called too many times

[Rizwan Basha]

Hi,

I have implemented RemoteDirectory interface in Crowd in order to implement our custom directory with Crowd.  Implementing this interface involved implementing several methods in the interface.  I am trying to understand how Crowd uses these methods and I see that it calls these methods many times.  For instance I tried to login to JIRA as a user in our custom directory, and tracked the methods called by Crowd.  It called authenticate() method 2 times, findUserByName() method 89 times and storeUserAttributes method 43 times.

Can anyone help me understand why this happens and what can I do to reduce this frequency.  

Thanks!