pw add user slow

[Paul Macdonald]

Hi,

I have to migrate an imap server, which uses about 6000 local accounts 
for mail delivery

I'm using a script that creates system acounts using:

/usr/sbin/pw adduser $LOCAL_USER -u$UID-gGID-d $PATH -s/bin/false

I'm finding this grows ever more slow, up to 10 seconds per account on a 
SATA box  , and on a test SSD box ( 20 acc's per second initially) even 
that slows to about 1 account created per second.

why does this slow down as more accounts are added?


thanks

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