Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 21:22:01 +0200 (DST) From: "Ben C. O. Grimm" <Ben.Grimm@wirehub.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recompiling pwd_mkdb Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0005022119040.-436881@bigben.wirehub.net> In-Reply-To: <20000502141431.B14952@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Tue, 2 May 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: >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. Users are added by a script which invokes pw useradd with some parameters. We add (and remove :) dozens of users every day this way. The remove part uses rmuser, of course. >> 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). No, it's being called from pw/rmuser each time. -- - Ben C. O. Grimm ----------------- Ben.Grimm@wirehub.net - - Wirehub! Internet Engineering - http://www.wirehub.net/ - - Wirehub! Backbone --- http://doema.wirehub.net/wirehub/ - - Private Ponderings ------- http://libertas.wirehub.net/ - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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