[ale] login slowdown with large number of user accounts

[Chuck Payne]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:15 PM,  <dhhoward at comcast.net> wrote:
> Folks, at my daughter's school we're seeing a huge slowdown in login time on
> K12Linux/Fedora10 after we added 1050 user accounts (one for each student).
> The server in question has only 100GB of hard disk space.  Any ideas as to
> what is happening?  Could each user account be automatically setting aside
> say 100MB of HDD storage resulting in no more swap space or something like
> that? Is there a config file somewhere that we could modify so that user
> accounts have less?  Thanks, Daniel
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>
>

What are you using for managing the users? LDAP? Shadow? Because first
thought it might be LDAP getting pegged. I take you have done iostat
on the drive and top to see what memory looks like?

Chuck

-- 
----------------------------------------
Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux.
-----------------------------------------
openSUSE -- http://en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup
openSUSE Ambassador
openSUSE Member
skype -- terrorpup
twitter -- terrorpup
friendfeed -- http://friendfeed.com/terrorpup

Come join me at the Atlanta Linux Fest, September 19th, 2009
http://atlantalinuxfest.org/.