Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 15:41:41 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, Patrick van Iersel <pviersel@office.caiw.nl>, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru> Subject: Re: Extreme load with local password db lookups Message-ID: <200712071541.41808.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <20071207074910.GA2404@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <4758DCDA.ED9F0C56@kuzbass.ru> <C37EB875.397C1%pviersel@office.caiw.nl> <20071207074910.GA2404@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On Friday 07 December 2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > 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. I would like to point out that in FreeBSD 7.x there is a daemon called nscd. I believe it was created exactly for this purpose (speeding up name lookups by caching them). - Pieter de Goeje
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