smh taking ages to load user list.

[Mark McDonald_2]

Hi

I have 2 identical servers (11.31 on rx2660)

When I open smh (text verion through putty)
select (u) for users and (l) for local.

The first box box returns the user list in about a second, the other box takes several minutes.

I have noticed this process on top:
0 pts/8 269 root 214 20 14472K 800K run 0:01 46.66 6.50 listUsers

What is it and why is it taking so long?

nsswitch is same on both machines
passwd is files only.
hosts if files dns

The only difference I can see is the second box is running a small oracle DB, not heavily utilised.

[Brose]

Hello,

I have exactly the same problem on a rx8620 with HPUX 11.31.
Did you find any solution or explanation ?
Thanks and regards.

[Mounaam · Accepted solution]

Hi,

which version are you using?

listUsers search for last login of each users listed in passwd file.
So time of execution could depend of size of file /var/adm/wtmps.
Is the size of this file reasonable?

[Brose]

Thanks a lot !
It was indeed wtmps file size that caused the problem.
Best regards.

[Mark McDonald_2]

dont work there any more so cannot check this.