On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 04:43:13AM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > Chris Fearnley, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line > >/etc/passwd. Now adduser takes OVER ONE MINUTE to find a UID and GID > >for the new user. And my staff is complaining about the wasted time. > > Something is wrong with your installation or possibly libc. I compiled > perl-5.003_07 and perl-5.004_04 on a Solaris box with 5000 users. The > 5.004_04 was somewhat faster.
I installed perl-5.003_07 (from bo - hence libc5) and modified adduser to call it (instead of the default perl - 5.004.04-6). Performance improved several hundred-fold. So I believe the problem is either in perl or libc6. Any suggestions on how to resolve this? As I said before the slowdown seems to occur in the get_current_uids subroutine (and possible get_current_gids). Which has a loop on getpwent (and getgrent). Can anyone else duplicate this behavior? -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.i21.com/~cjf | Explorer in Universe ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf | "Dare to be Naive" -- Bucky Fuller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
