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To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Mar 1997 16:04:40 PST."
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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:24:28 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
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Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> joerg       97/03/24 16:04:39
> 
>   Modified:    etc       make.conf
>   Log:
>   top(1) has a tunable parameter for the hash size to hash the user
>   entries.  Mention it in make.conf.

This is bogus.  Our getpw*() routines already dbm based, in-core hashed and 
cached via the DB libray.  Probably the correct thing to do is stub out 
top's (relatively weak) cache.

Cheers,
-Peter