Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:48:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: ":: Patrick Tracanelli ::" <eeviac@fatectq.com.br> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keeping User Database loaded in Mem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108031247430.51833-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010803053447.00a10560@200.210.2.10>
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use one of the client/server authentication methods and write the server part in a way that it keeps it in memory (of course the user database is usually in cache if you are doing a lot of authentication) On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, :: Patrick Tracanelli :: wrote: > > > Hello you all; > I want to know if there is a working way to keep FreeBSD's user database > loaded in memory. The reason's for that is very clear, if i keep my spwd.db > loaded the access to it won't be a disk access, so this will speedup any > forms of authentication... > > The reason is that i want to avoid SQL databases in some cases where the > system database works better to me. I have calculated that a database > amount of 3000 (+/-) users would need about 7.6MB of memory, what sounds > very good to me... > > If there isn't a way to it, yet, that is something i would love to see when > -CURRENT becomes -RELEASE... it's an idea :) > > Best Regards > Peace []'z Eksffa > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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