From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 3 17:25:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from staff.accessus.net (staff.accessus.net [209.145.151.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18BDD150D0 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 17:25:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doogie@accessus.net) Received: by staff.accessus.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:25:26 -0600 Message-ID: From: Jason Young To: 'Dan Babb' , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: large password file Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:16:29 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You need to increase the cache size of pwd_mkdb, I believe this can be done on the command line or by recompiling the program. See the manpage. You should be able to get the time down to a couple of seconds. Talk to ISPPower about Prism, it's basically ISPPower SQL-based, as I understand it. We use it here for ~12,000 customers, and it doesn't suck as bad as everything else out there, which we've already tried. :) > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Babb [mailto:bdan@c-zone.net] > Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 2:22 PM > To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: large password file > > > i don't know if this pertains to this list, but since i run > my isp with > freebsd, and i'm an isp this seemed most reasonable. > > currently i use ISPPower to interface with my machine (i know > .. shoot me) > and its starting to take a very long time to build accounts > or even edit the > master.passwd file via vipw > > i was curious .. what do isps do when their password file > reaches 6k to 7k > .. to use still use the master.passwd file .. or is there > some other option > to use, or something different? > > btw .. i'm also looking for new billing software. currently > looking at > rodopi(?) for billing, but i'd like to hear some feedback on > any types of > software billing at all possible > > thanks, > -d > > -d > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message