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From: fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: long delay
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.230750.10931@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 17 Jun 91 23:07:50 GMT
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In article <8539@awdprime.UUCP>, julie@levell.austin.ibm.com (Julie A. Levell) writes:
|> In article <91167.093627CALT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> CALT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:

[complains about long login delays]

|> If you have a large passwd file, there will be problems.  Call defect support
|> and request apar ix20305 for your level (3005).  You should see a REAL 
|> improvement in login time, if this was your problem in the first place.
|> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Yes!  She is not exaggerating.  After we used the patch, login time is 
shortened VERY much.  Our site, with > 9600 accounts, probably was the worst off
place using RISC 6000s a while back.
 
|> This goes for anyone with a large /etc/passwd file, it really helps.
|> 
|> Later,
|> Julie
|> -- 

I posted about our site's long login delay problem about two months ago.  Julie
responded, together with my head SA, Dennis Micheal, a patch was worked out and
now even with over 9600 active accounts in our yp passwd file, our RISC 6000s DO
NOT have long login delay problems.  Most of the time it's as fast as other 
machines, only occationally it's bearably slow. 

If IBM keeps getting good people like Julie, man!  SUN/DEC/HP will be 
in trouble :-)

I post this to complement these nice and helpful IBM software develpers like 
Julie.  Good job.  Thanks.

Best Regards,

Chin Fang
Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University
fangchin@leland.stanford.edu