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Date:      Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:49:10 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Patrick van Iersel <pviersel@office.caiw.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru>
Subject:   Re: Extreme load with local password db lookups
Message-ID:  <20071207074910.GA2404@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <C37EB875.397C1%pviersel@office.caiw.nl>
References:  <4758DCDA.ED9F0C56@kuzbass.ru> <C37EB875.397C1%pviersel@office.caiw.nl>

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On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:44:37AM +0100, Patrick van Iersel wrote:
> > From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru>
> > See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=75855
> > It seems the regression from RELENG_4 is still here.
> > 
> > There are so many regressions in performance that I still
> > prefer to invest time to patch bsd.ports.mk to support 4.x
> > (and have a success, I use fresh ports with 4.x these days)
> > then upgrade my UP boxes to 6.x and suffer from loss of performaince.
> 
> For what it's worth, Eugene's suggestion of changing nsswitch.conf actually
> helps. It was mentioned in the PR above as well. It's still a workaround but
> it works good enough for me now.

I stand corrected.  :-) The PR referenced by Eugene is dead on.  The
priority on that PR should really be changed to medium or high, because
the impact is major.  I'm sure large hosting/shell providers are being
bitten by this.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                    jdc at parodius.com |
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