Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 22:00:45 -0600 (CST) From: bugs@freebsd.netcom.com (Mark Hittinger) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: re: pwd_mkdb - really slow :( Message-ID: <199603040400.WAA00183@freebsd.netcom.com>
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> From: Rashid Karimov <rashid@rk.ios.com> > I have quite afew systems here with ~10.00 accounts > on ea ... and pwd_mkdb is _very slow now ... Takes > 2+ minutes to rebuild the damn databases every time. > I had some systems with over 15,000 accounts in the databases and the performance was terrible! :-) Guido van Rooij wrote some patches for pwd_mkdb that do "update-in-place" of the password database. These patches made a tremendous difference for me. If the record doesn't already exist, it is added without a rebuild of the entire set of files. Perhaps Guido can post the latest version of his adjustments. The process of changing a password on vanilla FreeBSD is an amazing one! We modify a record in /etc/master.passwd, we then build pwd.db, spwd.db, and passwd! We have a lot of redundant records laying around. Any site that has a large number of users or is considering having a large number of users should search the archives for Guido's patches. Regards, Mark Hittinger Netcom/Dallas bugs@freebsd.netcom.com
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