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Subject: Re: bin/112613: 'ls -l' is very slow or doesn't work at all
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David Schultz wrote:
> user_from_uid() is a wrapper around NSS, which was introduced in
> FreeBSD 5. I'm not really prepared to help you diagnose a
> performance regression with 10,000 uids, except to suggest that
> you try removing the NIS entries from /etc/nsswitch.conf.
> What do you mean by "doesn't work at all"? What does it do? Have
> you tried a recent version of FreeBSD?

Running nscd on 7.0 may also help.

Kris