Valentin Vidic wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:21:33AM +0200, Tim Bell wrote: > >>(which is currently at 15,000 users). One of the operations was taking >>8 minutes since it was doing an O(n**2) lookup on the users. > > > nscd or libnss-db can be used to speed up the lookups. > > But here is another idea: we use LDAP and create/delete accounts on the fly. hmm, but how do you keep your accounting data, and permissions on files, straight? creating accounts on the fly OK, but deleting them? JT