From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 10:26:32 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA06360 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 10:26:32 -0700 Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA06353 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 10:26:23 -0700 Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id TAA00185; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 19:13:50 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199509051713.TAA00185@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Why "finger" takes so long ? To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 19:13:50 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509051702.KAA23558@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Sep 5, 95 10:02:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 916 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Finger looks up the user's directory; basically, it looks up the home > directory as a file name. > > So it's looking up a directory entry in a directory 600 entries deep > for each user currently on the system (for a non-explicit finger). if that matters, home directories are spread, about 10-15 per subdir. But then, this might even make things worse! > If you are running the standard finger, check the list archives for > the patch (I didn't save it). can you point me to some of those archives ? Thanks Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================