use one of the client/server authentication methods and write the
server part in a way that it keeps it in memory
(of course the user database is usually in cache if you are doing a lot of
authentication)
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, :: Patrick Tracanelli :: wrote:
>
>
> Hello you all;
> I want to know if there is a working way to keep FreeBSD's user database
> loaded in memory. The reason's for that is very clear, if i keep my spwd.db
> loaded the access to it won't be a disk access, so this will speedup any
> forms of authentication...
>
> The reason is that i want to avoid SQL databases in some cases where the
> system database works better to me. I have calculated that a database
> amount of 3000 (+/-) users would need about 7.6MB of memory, what sounds
> very good to me...
>
> If there isn't a way to it, yet, that is something i would love to see when
> -CURRENT becomes -RELEASE... it's an idea :)
>
> Best Regards
> Peace []'z Eksffa
>
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