Hello, > Are the home directories located over the network ?
no, it's horribly slow even if groupadd is called several times. > Please send the results of: > time groupadd > time useradd > time useradd -d /somewhere -m pls. look@ following post > uptime > ps -ef | wc -l # uptime 10:29pm up 1 day(s), 8:15, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.08, 0.38 # ps -ef | wc -l 45 > And the specs of your machine. Adding users is rarely a intensive operation so > something must be using the resources, please provide more information about > how the machine is being used. it's fresh install. Solaris 10. Nothing is running on the machine. Two Quad Core Opterons, 64 GB RAM :) Root FS is on ZFS pool. have anice day peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org