Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:19:41 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Greg Goodman <admin@fastserve.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Passwd command slow Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.0.20030930211841.07c490f8@209.112.4.2> In-Reply-To: <16410572221.20030930181331@fastserve.net> References: <1476593828.20030930175150@fastserve.net> <6.0.0.22.0.20030930210335.0739c0d8@209.112.4.2> <16410572221.20030930181331@fastserve.net>
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Wat does
wc /etc/passwd
show ?
Are you running NIS ?
---Mike
At 09:13 PM 30/09/2003, Greg Goodman wrote:
>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
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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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