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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!rain.fr!francenet.fr!usenet From: Gildas Perrot <perrot@francenet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Huge passwd file and consequences... Date: 18 Jun 1997 17:57:00 +0200 Organization: Francenet -- Paris, France Lines: 18 Sender: perrot@epiphore.francenet.fr Message-ID: <rd205z52gj.fsf@epiphore.francenet.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: epiphore-old.francenet.fr X-Face: '%)H7X3>"mU[aaPz3aZ`^e{*DV1&W;+P-Wx*Yk)Ah[e(-AO&EB\D.gq2y{kH73Q29}_A4H,eykdf!9dj[m\gwFgZOTt?=7gI+RBN,I({A32-MyZrmtrD%8*L/boGS0,+Lj$H|@ X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:7024 Hi everybody, I have a very huge passwd file (20000 users) on a BSD/OS 2.1 host. This host is the SMTP and POP server for those users, with on average, 10 POP sessions and 20 sendmail sessions in the same time. My problem is that when I added 10000 users to 10000 existing ones, 3 weeks ago, the host started to be very slow in response for POP sessions. I assume the cause is the increased time of authentification due to the increasing of the passwd file size. I would like to know if there is solution to solve this problem without upgrading hardware. Thanks in advance to answer me directly. Gildas. -- Gildas PERROT, perrot@francenet.fr __o FranceNet, 28 rue Desaix, 75015 Paris ---_ \<,_ http://www.francenet.fr ---- (_)/ (_)