From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Sep 20 9:56: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from seidata.com (seidata.com [208.10.211.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 998C715B67 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:55:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pboehmer@seidata.com) Received: from yaffer (lan-gw.seidata.com [208.10.211.26]) by seidata.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA09830 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:56:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990920130205.007b0250@seidata.com> X-Sender: pboehmer@seidata.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:02:05 -0400 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Paul Boehmer Subject: RE: pwd_mkdb speed Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have had real good luck with adding the -s option. IE: pwd_mkdb -s 8 would create an 8mb cache. This has sped up adding users to our current 12,000+ user system, from 2-3min to 20sec. Hope this helps, it did us. Paul Boehmer pboehmer@seidata.com At 07:41 PM 9/20/99 +0300, you wrote: > >Greetings to all, > >I have a free web based email service running on a 3.3-Release machine >and when users open new acounts it takes about 25 sec. for pwd_mkdb >to proccess the master.passwd file. And I only have 10,000 accounts >on the system. All this time the user has to wait. > >Can anyone suggest a way to accelerate this proccess? > >thanks, >slava revutchi > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message