Passwd command slow

[Mike Tancsa]

Wat does
wc /etc/passwd
show ?

Are you running NIS ?

         ---Mike

At 09:13 PM 30/09/2003, Greg Goodman wrote:
>Hello Mike,
>
>I tried that and it didn't help.
>Is there anything else I can try?
>
>
>
>Tuesday, September 30, 2003, 6:06:47 PM, you wrote:
>
>
>MT> If you have a large password file, increase the cache size of pwd_mkdb
>
>MT> cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb
>
>MT> edit pwd_mkdb.c
>
>MT> On line 74 you see
>MT> HASHINFO openinfo = {
>MT>          4096,           /* bsize */
>MT>          32,             /* ffactor */
>MT>          256,            /* nelem */
>MT>          2048 * 1024,    /* cachesize */
>MT>          NULL,           /* hash() */
>MT>          0               /* lorder */
>MT> };
>
>MT> do something like
>
>MT> HASHINFO openinfo = {
>MT>          4096,           /* bsize */
>MT>          32,             /* ffactor */
>MT>          256,            /* nelem */
>MT>          32 * 2048 * 1024,    /* cachesize */
>MT>          NULL,           /* hash() */
>MT>          0               /* lorder */
>MT> };
>
>
>MT> Then
>
>MT> make depend
>MT> make
>MT> make install
>
>MT>          ---Mike
>MT> At 08:51 PM 30/09/2003, Greg Goodman wrote:
> >>Hello Everyone,
> >>
> >>I have a server running freebsd 4.8.
> >>When you type the command "passwd" it hangs for more than 2 minutes
> >>before it finally responds and prompts to change an existing users
> >>password.
> >>
> >>Can anyone shed some light on this issue?
> >>
> >>Thanks for the help.
> >>
> >>--
> >>Best regards,
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> >>
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> >>
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>Best regards,
>  Greg Goodman                          mailto:admin at fastserve.net
>
>  Chief Technical Officer
>
>               Fastserve Network
>            http://www.fastserve.net
>               (213)673-4440 ext 204
>         548 S. Spring St. Suite 1100
>            Los Angeles Ca. 90013
>    The Net Never Sleeps And Neither Do We