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Re: How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?
- From: VÃclav Zeman <vhaisman at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 13:09:08 +0100
- Subject: Re: How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?
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- References: <20140131203738 dot GA8707 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
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).
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