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Date:      Tue, 2 May 2000 14:14:31 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        "Ben C. O. Grimm" <Ben.Grimm@wirehub.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Recompiling pwd_mkdb
Message-ID:  <20000502141431.B14952@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0005022046180.-436881@bigben.wirehub.net>; from "Ben C. O. Grimm" on Tue May  2 20:50:57 GMT 2000
References:  <Pine.WNT.4.21.0005022046180.-436881@bigben.wirehub.net>

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In the last episode (May 02), Ben C. O. Grimm said:
> Found this in a digest:
> > > I have on FreeBSD machine about 33000 users and this number grow!
> > > To add a new user takes about 1 minute.At this time the machine
> > > is very busy :(

Are you adding users with "pw useradd", or something else?  It sounds
like you're rebuilding the entire user database for some reason.
 
> Is it a matter of just increasing the cache size to, say, 4096 *
> 2048, leaving the other values as they are, or should all values be
> increased in conjunction?

If you're running pwd_mkdb manually, run "pwd_mkdb -s 8000000" (for an
8 MB cache).

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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