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style='font-size:10.0pt'>I wanted to know what the minimum hardware requirements would be to run tac_plus? All I found in the FAQ was talking about memory. I don’t know if it is meaning RAM or swap space since it asks about memory but the last word of the answer is swap.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Q). What are the memory recommendations for TACACS+?<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>A). Unless you're using passwd style files, TACACS+ holds entries in<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> hash tables in memory. The overhead is modest e.g. each user entry<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> occupies 72 bytes, plus space for strings like username and password<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> etc. Access time should thus be pretty constant regardless of number<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> of users. On a sparc 2, a config file containing 2000 users requires<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> about 0.5M of swap.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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font-family:Arial'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Kyle Rizzo<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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