On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 04:43:55PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 12:04:52PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > > On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:55:05AM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: > > > > > > What were the symptoms you experienced? > > > > I don't have anything related to LDAP here. > > > > I added users >> /etc/passwd through: > > #include <stdio.h> > > int main(void) > > { > > for (int i = 1001; i < 60000; i++) > > printf("t%d:x:%d:%d::/home/t%d:/bin/sh\n", i, i, i, i); > > } > > > > 'useradd t60000' worked fine, a bit slow but under 2 seconds. > > 'useradd t60001' didn't finish within 30 seconds. > > Thanks for the test case. > > With 1:4.1.3.1-1, there are no problems. > 0m0.570s to add the last user > 0m0.178s to report afterward: > useradd: Can't get unique UID (no more available UIDs) > useradd: can't create user > > With 1:4.1.1-6, I could confirm the problem: > 0m0.371s to add the last user > 9m53.508s to report afterward: > Can't get unique UID (no more available UIDs) > useradd: can't create user > > So this was not related to LDAP, but getpwent() rewinds to the > first entry after it returned NULL. > > As the process eventually finishes (even if 10m on a fast box is quite > long), I don't think it requires an update for Lenny. > > Any other opinion?
This is a corner case that I triggered by searching the max users limit, this isn't critical, especially since it's fixed in the next version :) -- Sylvain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
