On 31 January 2014 21:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi guys, > > as you may or may not have read, I'm working on a patch which drops the > need to maintain /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, but rather loads all > required information from Windows (either SAM or AD). > > It's all working pretty nicely already, but there's one part of my > changes which is a bit, let's say, questionable in terms of memory > usage, *iff* a user decides to stick to the passwd and group files. > > To learn what I have to struggle with in this situation, I'd like to > know this: > > Is anybody here who's using /etc/passwd and/or group files > of more than 16K in size? > > If so, please reply to this thread with the size of your files.
`--> du -h /etc/passwd /etc/group 2.9M /etc/passwd 4.0K /etc/group I have just generated it using the recommended way at the time, few years ago. I could probably trim it down to just my own record. > > > Thanks in advance, > Corinna > > > P.S: As a sidenote, if you think Cygwin is slow, one factor *might* be > the size of your passwd and group files. Right now, these files > have to be loaded anew in each exec'ed process. > This is supposed to go away with my patch, but big passwd and > group files would still have an impact when starting the first > Cygwin process (mintty, for instance). -- VZ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
