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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: FREEBSD-CHAT-L <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>, Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
Subject: Another pointless contest... gigantic passwd files?
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Brian Tao writes:

># 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...

How big is your /var/mail?