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. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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