bin/51148 Slow vipw and fast pwd_mkdb

[Doug Barton]

On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Alex Semenyaka wrote:

> Hello,
>
> could somebody to comment PR bin/51148? It is suggestion how to pass
> a value of cache size to pwd_mkdb when we are doing vipw or such.
> It can give a greate speed-up when master.passwd is really big (and
> sometimes it is). Appropriate cache size can make process 10 to 100
> or more times faster. I gave the results of measurements in that
> problem report.

Having been in a "mondo huge master.passwd file" situation myself, my
comment is that people in this situation should probably not be relying on
tools like vipw to manage their stuff. However, my feelings aren't strong
enough to prompt me to close your PR, so good luck. :)

Doug

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