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Date:      03 Dec 1997 01:56:30 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/5193: Long rebuild times for pwd_mkdb with large master.passwd files
Message-ID:  <p1ibtyzw8g1.fsf@panke.panke.de>
In-Reply-To: Bill Fenner's message of Tue, 2 Dec 1997 14:00:03 -0800 (PST)
References:  <199712022200.OAA08420@hub.freebsd.org>

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Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> writes:
>  Would it make sense to try to guess a good default based on the size of
>  master.passwd, so the user doesn't have to decide what value to pass?

Yes. A least, pwd_mkdb should print a warning if the
cache size is probability to low for the given master.passwd.

-- 
Wolfram Schneider   <wosch@apfel.de>   http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/



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