On 15 Aug 2001 20:54:25 +0200, Leonard Cooper wrote:
> Dont know what I was thinking when I wrote this....
> what I meant was....
> how do I rebuild vpasswd.cdb?
vmkpasswd "domain name"
> I have a complication with our Compaq win2K base NAS box, so I cant use the
> normal v-utils right now, but have a load of things that need changing!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 6:43 PM
> To: Leonard Cooper
> Cc: Vchkpw
> Subject: Re: Vpasswd File optimisation??
>
>
> On 14 Aug 2001 16:58:44 +0200, Leonard Cooper wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I have a huge vpasswd file of one of my virtual domains. These users were
> > added vadduser -as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > I would like to know if and how I can "OPTIMISE" this file?
> >
> > thanks
> > Leonard
> >
>
> What would "optimizing" get you? Faster lookups or
> faster updates? It uses Dan Bernsteins cdb code so
> any optimizations would need to be in the cdb code.
>
> If you want faster use I suggest you switch to
> an sql module like mysql. Mysql is built to handle
> multiple updates/add/delete/lookups with an index.
>
> >From my experience the cdb module is not fast enough
> for updates with over 5000 users. It is, however, still
> very fast for lookups.
>
> Ken Jones
>
