From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 1 20:20:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F0A416A468 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:20:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [69.147.83.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 468C813C48A for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:20:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l61KK9vT088189 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:20:09 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id l61KK9J5088188; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:20:09 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:20:09 GMT Message-Id: <200707012020.l61KK9J5088188@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: "Vyacheslav Silakov" Cc: Subject: Re: bin/112613: 'ls -l' is very slow or doesn't work at all X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Vyacheslav Silakov List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:20:10 -0000 The following reply was made to PR bin/112613; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Vyacheslav Silakov" To: Cc: Subject: Re: bin/112613: 'ls -l' is very slow or doesn't work at all Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 23:57:45 +0400 Ok... ;) I've a look into ls.c. It seems to be a performance problem around string #702 [...] user = user_from_uid(sp->st_uid, 0); [...] My /etc/passwd contains about 10,000 records and /var/mail directory contains about 10,000 mailboxes. Probably 'user_from_uid' function is doing something wrong. Original timing: # time ls -l /var/mail [...] 1572.20 real 133.71 user 790.94 sys But when I'm changed user = user_from_uid(sp->st_uid, 0); to user = "blablabla"; result is: # time ./ls -l /var/mail [...] 17.01 real 0.20 user 0.22 sys p.s. 'deco' program works fine because it doesn't use 'user_from_uid' function calls.