Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 22:44:51 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: FREEBSD-CHAT-L <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>, Brian Tao <taob@io.org> Subject: Another pointless contest... gigantic passwd files? Message-ID: <199608282044.WAA00619@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960828013340.18538H-100000@zap.io.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960828013340.18538H-100000@zap.io.org>
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Brian Tao writes: ># wc -l passwd > 102531 passwd > > Generating the db files with a pwd_mkdb modifed with cachesize set >to 64MB cache took about 45 minutes on a P133 while handling mail and >primary DNS (named was occupying about 30MB itself). It was swapping >rather heavily, and I think I can get the time to under half an hour >on an unloaded system with 128MB of RAM. > > Now to figure out what we're going to do with NFS's 16-bit uid's >and the best way to handle mail for 100,000 users... How big is your /var/mail?
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