From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 10:33:40 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA06662 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 10:33:40 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA06656 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 10:33:38 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA23640; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 10:28:02 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199509051728.KAA23640@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Why "finger" takes so long ? To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 10:28:02 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509051713.TAA00185@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Sep 5, 95 07:13:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 935 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Finger looks up the user's directory; basically, it looks up the home > > directory as a file name. > > > > So it's looking up a directory entry in a directory 600 entries deep > > for each user currently on the system (for a non-explicit finger). > > if that matters, home directories are spread, about 10-15 per subdir. > But then, this might even make things worse! See my other message; it depends on if you are complaining about a generic "finger" or a "finger ". You were only 600 users, the other was ~3 times that many. > > If you are running the standard finger, check the list archives for > > the patch (I didn't save it). > > can you point me to some of those archives ? http://www.freebsd.org ftp://freefall.cdrom.com ftp://ftp.freebsd.org One of those places. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.