Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 02:00:39 -0700 From: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_T=F6rnqvist?= <bjorn.tornqvist@west.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Speeding up account-adding? Message-ID: <20010807020039.A14999@toldme.com> In-Reply-To: <013501c11f18$346fc1a0$0e00a8c0@bashful>; from bjorn.tornqvist@west.se on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:08:55AM %2B0200 References: <013501c11f18$346fc1a0$0e00a8c0@bashful>
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:08:55AM +0200, Björn Törnqvist wrote: > At work, we need to add 100k+ loginaccounts on a single system, but > I've found that after about 15k accounts it takes ~5 seconds to add it > (through pw useradd). My guess is that its the pwmkdb that is slowing > things down at an exponetial rate - anyone know how to fix this? > > Please reply to me as I'm not a member of the list. You would labotomize pw to not call pwd_mkdb, and then carefully feed pw incremented UIDs, and then run pwd_mkdb when you are done. :) http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/user-mgmt.html -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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