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/etc/group, /etc/passwd usage by cygwin layer ?
- From: jurgen dot defurne at philips dot com
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:28:04 +0100
- Subject: /etc/group, /etc/passwd usage by cygwin layer ?
Hello,
Are the /etc/group and /etc/passwd files referenced much by cygwin while
executing programs or doing file accesses ?
The reason for asking is the following.
I have a server process which schedules build jobs. This process awakes
every five seconds, to have a good response time. However, when looking
at the Task Manager performance display, I now have every five seconds
a spike up to 30% cpu. This is a dual processor system, at 1.8 GHz and a
SCSI subsystem.
The only thing I changed yesterday, was copying a new group file, created
by mkgroup -d. This file is 1669895 bytes large (yes, that is 1.59 Mb), it
contains 22080 group entries.
I done the test. I took the new group file, removed all lines below what I
needed (about 20500), and replaced it. The result is that everything is
snappier under Cygwin.
Do you think this should be filed as a bug ?
Jurgen
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