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- From: adh@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
- Subject: Re: 386 Unix - is 5,000 logins realistic?
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: na
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:40:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.174008.23663@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Nov18.031323.8045@toolz.uucp>
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- In article <1992Nov18.031323.8045@toolz.uucp> todd@toolz.uucp (Todd Merriman) writes:
- "
- "Is it realistic to support about 5,000 logins with a 386 Unix?
- "There will be no more than 32 logins active at any time, but what
- "about the time it takes to look up the password during login?
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- dunno just how bad it would be, but you could also:
- a) sort your passwd file
- b) get a pd getty-replacement, and hack it to do a binary search.
-
- this ought to whiz, even on a 5k-line passwd!
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- Andrew Hay | I am not an expert, |
- a_d_hay@att.com | but I play one on the Internet! |
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