How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Jan 31 21:54:00 GMT 2014
On Jan 31 13:46, Jim Kresse wrote:
> > 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.
>
> /etc/passwd: 2.6 MB
> /etc/group: 460 kB
Oh boy. Considering what I wrote in my mail:
> 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).
would you be willing to reduce the size of the files to the entries
you really need and see how much of a performance impact this has
when running, say, a make or so?
Thanks,
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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