groupadd, useradd, etc

Richard E Miles r.godzilla at comcast.net
Thu Feb 17 02:01:18 UTC 2005


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:52:31 -0600
Bill Gradwohl <bill at ycc.com> wrote:

> On a completely patched FC3 box, what could cause groupadd to take over 
> 3 minutes to finish?
> 
> All the utilities that manage users and groups are incredibly slow, 
> taking several minutes each to complete.
> 
> As the only loged in user (I'm still setting this box up) here's a sample:
> root at s2 ~# time groupadd xyz
> 
> real    3m16.414s
> user    0m27.906s
> sys     0m8.998s
> root at s2 ~# time groupdel xyz
> 
> real    3m14.103s
> user    0m27.141s
> sys     0m9.275s
> 
> Ideas?
> 
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I doubt that those commands are causing the times that you see. Do a top to see
what processes are running.

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Richard E Miles
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