Date: 10 Jan 1998 17:54:52 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How are people handling lots of accounts? Message-ID: <p1ioh1k5kwy.fsf@panke.panke.de> In-Reply-To: Jaye Mathisen's message of Wed, 7 Jan 1998 18:17:46 -0800 (PST) References: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980107181608.25611Q-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>
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Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> writes:
> With 50000 test accounts in master.passwd, it takes something like 10
> minutes to rebuild the .db files, completely preventing anybody else from
> doing anything password related.
>
> Is there anything that can be done to speed this up? Changing the
> password isn't too bad, only about 30 seconds, but adding takes forever.
You can increase the database cache size from 4MB to a higher value in
pwd_mkdb. See pwd_mkdb.c line 70. You must recompile pwd_mkdb for this
change.
Did you use the -u option?
pwd_mkdb(8)
-u username
Only update the record for the specified user. Utilities that op-
erate on a single user can use this option to avoid the overhead of
rebuilding the entire database.
--
Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/
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