Gjermund Sorseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I should have added that my number of 10000 comes from the days before
> some vendors added caching, like Sun with their nscd program. With
> these new schemes the number can be much higher, but programs
> like nscd introduce other problems and I recomend against using them
> when the number of /etc/passwd entries gets very very large.
This is true. Updating passwd on servers with more than a million
entries generally requires shutting qmail while nscd updates itself.
On one occasion, when I neglected to do so, I saw a server load of
above 250... So, yes, we're moving over to another scheme before the
passwd file grows much larger. Somewhere around 2 million entries
seems to be the limit for our system, running Solaris 2.6 (yes,
upgrade to 8 is in the works...) on various types of Sun Ultras.
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