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Date:      Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:13:31 -0700
From:      Greg Goodman <admin@fastserve.net>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re[2]: Passwd command slow
Message-ID:  <16410572221.20030930181331@fastserve.net>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20030930210335.0739c0d8@209.112.4.2>
References:  <1476593828.20030930175150@fastserve.net> <6.0.0.22.0.20030930210335.0739c0d8@209.112.4.2>

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Hello Mike,

I tried that and it didn't help.
Is there anything else I can try?



Tuesday, September 30, 2003, 6:06:47 PM, you wrote:


MT> If you have a large password file, increase the cache size of pwd_mkdb

MT> cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb

MT> edit pwd_mkdb.c

MT> On line 74 you see
MT> HASHINFO openinfo = {
MT>          4096,           /* bsize */
MT>          32,             /* ffactor */
MT>          256,            /* nelem */
MT>          2048 * 1024,    /* cachesize */
MT>          NULL,           /* hash() */
MT>          0               /* lorder */
MT> };

MT> do something like

MT> HASHINFO openinfo = {
MT>          4096,           /* bsize */
MT>          32,             /* ffactor */
MT>          256,            /* nelem */
MT>          32 * 2048 * 1024,    /* cachesize */
MT>          NULL,           /* hash() */
MT>          0               /* lorder */
MT> };


MT> Then

MT> make depend
MT> make
MT> make install

MT>          ---Mike
MT> At 08:51 PM 30/09/2003, Greg Goodman wrote:
>>Hello Everyone,
>>
>>I have a server running freebsd 4.8.
>>When you type the command "passwd" it hangs for more than 2 minutes
>>before it finally responds and prompts to change an existing users
>>password.
>>
>>Can anyone shed some light on this issue?
>>
>>Thanks for the help.
>>
>>--
>>Best regards,
>>  Greg Goodman                          mailto:admin@fastserve.net
>>
>>  Chief Technical Officer
>>
>>               Fastserve Network
>>            http://www.fastserve.net
>>               (213)673-4440 ext 204
>>         548 S. Spring St. Suite 1100
>>            Los Angeles Ca. 90013
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>>
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-- 
Best regards,
 Greg Goodman                          mailto:admin@fastserve.net

 Chief Technical Officer                          

              Fastserve Network
           http://www.fastserve.net
              (213)673-4440 ext 204
        548 S. Spring St. Suite 1100
           Los Angeles Ca. 90013
   The Net Never Sleeps And Neither Do We  



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