Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 01:43:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: FREEBSD-CHAT-L <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Cc: FREEBSD-ISP-L <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Another pointless contest... gigantic passwd files? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960828013340.18538H-100000@zap.io.org>
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I don't have any FreeBSD servers that have 400-day uptimes
(although our Majordomo server is at 102 days now), but I figure one
of our servers may have the largest passwd file around. :)
# cd /etc
# ls -ls *passwd *pwd.db
7632 -rw------- 1 root wheel 7806209 Aug 27 18:16 master.passwd
5936 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6063368 Aug 27 19:02 passwd
38936 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 41750528 Aug 27 18:58 pwd.db
43752 -rw------- 1 root wheel 73437184 Aug 27 19:02 spwd.db
# wc -l passwd
102531 passwd
Generating the db files with a pwd_mkdb modifed with cachesize set
to 64MB cache took about 45 minutes on a P133 while handling mail and
primary DNS (named was occupying about 30MB itself). It was swapping
rather heavily, and I think I can get the time to under half an hour
on an unloaded system with 128MB of RAM.
Now to figure out what we're going to do with NFS's 16-bit uid's
and the best way to handle mail for 100,000 users...
(replies set to freebsd-chat)
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
Senior Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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