On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 16:46 -0400, Chaskiel M Grundman wrote: > mynewstate is taking 8s to run, and very little of the time is taken up in > local subroutines. > auth_unix.c:mynewstate calls getpwnam, and then iterates over all the > groups using getgrent(), > checking to see what groups the user is in. The fact that imapd does this > twice might be a bug, but even if it didn't do it twice, it would still be > slow. to speed up initgroups, make sure you have the netid.byname NIS map. if you're not familiar with it, the keys should be "unix.UID@NISDOMAIN", the values are "UID:GID,GID,GID,...". an example for my account, which is uid 1232 in domain "ifi": key: "unix.1232@ifi" value: "1232:0,6,15,7411,11232" presto, no iteration through the complete group map needed! -- Kjetil T. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html