Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 16:00:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@speicher.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/51148 Slow vipw and fast pwd_mkdb Message-ID: <200304202300.h3KN0dVn059250@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/51148; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@speicher.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org> Cc: Alex Semenyaka <alexs@ratmir.ru>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/51148 Slow vipw and fast pwd_mkdb Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 19:13:30 -0400 (EDT) On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Doug Barton wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Alex Semenyaka wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > could somebody to comment PR bin/51148? It is suggestion how to pass > > a value of cache size to pwd_mkdb when we are doing vipw or such. > > It can give a greate speed-up when master.passwd is really big (and > > sometimes it is). Appropriate cache size can make process 10 to 100 > > or more times faster. I gave the results of measurements in that > > problem report. > > Having been in a "mondo huge master.passwd file" situation myself, my > comment is that people in this situation should probably not be relying on > tools like vipw to manage their stuff. However, my feelings aren't strong > enough to prompt me to close your PR, so good luck. :) Are your feelings strong enough to commit bin/38676 so that people can use pw(8) safely and concurrently on mondo huge master.passwd files? :) bin/23501 was supposed to have fixed the problem, but it doesn't appear to have been committed before it was closed. bin/38676 is a revised/improved version of the original patch in bin/23501. Geoff
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