From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 7 07:49:10 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE2216A419 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 07:49:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6090013C508 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 07:49:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1B90B1CC07B; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:49:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:49:10 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Patrick van Iersel Message-ID: <20071207074910.GA2404@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <4758DCDA.ED9F0C56@kuzbass.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Eugene Grosbein Subject: Re: Extreme load with local password db lookups X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:49:10 -0000 On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:44:37AM +0100, Patrick van Iersel wrote: > > From: Eugene Grosbein > > 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 |