>>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Lever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chuck> at UM ITD we have a ~42,000 entry passwd file, and most unices search
Chuck> it linearly. although there is a copy of /etc/passwd in AFS, for
Chuck> heavily-used machines we copy the AFS version into a local UFS.
We have 7342 active entries in our AFS Kas. The actually database is
up to uid 13300. We've added id's sequentially for about 5 years, so
there are probably about 5-6k "holes", in the database.
Chuck> some machines on campus use a dbm, and we're working on another
Chuck> database-style method for speeding up the search for some of the
Chuck> heavily-used machines.
Chuck> Chuck Lever - http://www.umich.edu/~cel
Chuck> UM ITD Login Server Team
In our case, we mainly run AIX. Fortunately, it has a mkpasswd command
to hash /etc/passwd into a db, so that lookups are much faster.
We do have machines on sites with all users in the /etc/passwd and this
definately helps.
Chuck> Ozra says:
Chuck> < Dose any body have more than 10000 users with running AFS and using
Chuck> < password dbm successfully?
Chuck> <
Chuck> < Is it possible to run AFS with 20000 users using dbm password?
We are moving quite rapidly to DCE/DFS and our DCE registry is already
larger than its AFS counterpart. Our plan is to investigate the
implications of this. We have looked at the paper you guys did on
large DCE registries, this was a very good start. (Presently, it
seems that the Registry won't be a problem. However, I'm not so sure
about the CDS! But, that's another issue)
--
Chris Cowan
ISSC (SER AFS/DCE/DSM Support)
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