From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 1 10: 0:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles549.castles.com [208.214.165.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68280154E1 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:00:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA05971; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 09:51:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909011651.JAA05971@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jaye Mathisen Cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minor patches to pwd_mkdb In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Sep 1999 01:05:40 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 09:51:57 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Why is it OK for top to do it, but not pwd_mkdb? I probably end up > updating my OS faster than I add users to my password file... Top being wrong is not a justification for doing it wrong again. > Tweak the cache to 32MB's, and never touch it again, regardless of how big > your passwd file is... Then why make it a build option at all? -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message