Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 14:14:31 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: "Ben C. O. Grimm" <Ben.Grimm@wirehub.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recompiling pwd_mkdb Message-ID: <20000502141431.B14952@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0005022046180.-436881@bigben.wirehub.net>; from "Ben C. O. Grimm" on Tue May 2 20:50:57 GMT 2000 References: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0005022046180.-436881@bigben.wirehub.net>
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In the last episode (May 02), Ben C. O. Grimm said: > Found this in a digest: > > > I have on FreeBSD machine about 33000 users and this number grow! > > > To add a new user takes about 1 minute.At this time the machine > > > is very busy :( Are you adding users with "pw useradd", or something else? It sounds like you're rebuilding the entire user database for some reason. > Is it a matter of just increasing the cache size to, say, 4096 * > 2048, leaving the other values as they are, or should all values be > increased in conjunction? If you're running pwd_mkdb manually, run "pwd_mkdb -s 8000000" (for an 8 MB cache). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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