Well, in my case, changing from 2MB to 8MB's knocked the rebuild time from
2:05 to 36 seconds, for appx 15000 records.
not enough memory to make a real difference that I can see, but it kept
the disk tps meter pegged at 118-120.
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 18:29:58 MST, Jaye Mathisen wrote:
>
> > Got tired of the dinky cachesize for pwd_mkdb, especially since vipw
> > doesn't take advantage of the -u or -s options.
>
> Vipw doesn't take advantage of the -u option? I must have read through
> the code too fast.
>
> > Dramatically helps on those 10-15k line password files.
>
> What impact does your patch have on a loaded machine?
>
> Since vipw already knows how many lines there are in the file, surely we
> could get it to approximate an ideal cache size and pass it as the
> argument to pwd_mkdb's -s option?
>
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
>
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