Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 19:13:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why "finger" takes so long ? Message-ID: <199509051713.TAA00185@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199509051702.KAA23558@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Sep 5, 95 10:02:22 am
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> Finger looks up the user's directory; basically, it looks up the home > directory as a file name. > > So it's looking up a directory entry in a directory 600 entries deep > for each user currently on the system (for a non-explicit finger). if that matters, home directories are spread, about 10-15 per subdir. But then, this might even make things worse! > If you are running the standard finger, check the list archives for > the patch (I didn't save it). can you point me to some of those archives ? Thanks Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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