groupadd, useradd, etc

[Bill Gradwohl]

Nigel Wade wrote:

> How large is your /etc/group file?
> Is it corrupt in some way?
>
root at s2 ~# ll /etc/group
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2654 Feb 16 20:31 /etc/group
root at s2 ~# ll /etc/passwd
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 6477 Feb 16 21:12 /etc/passwd

Both look absolutely normal. The useradd command also takes forever.

At some points, these commands consume 95% of memory - that's 1G RAM & 
2Gig Swap.

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