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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: ":: Patrick Tracanelli ::" <eeviac@fatectq.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Keeping User Database loaded in Mem
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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
> 
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