Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:39:00 +0100 From: "Jonathan Defries" <jonathan@corpex.com> To: "Freebsd-Questions@Freebsd. Org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Slow passwd command Message-ID: <NEBBJLAOAKHHJLPLDLPIKELPDBAA.jonathan@corpex.com>
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Hi all,
I have a problem that has been with me for several months now.
When I type "passwd <user>" is takes nearly a minute to be
presented with the password prompt. The same happens running
passwd as a normal user.
This is on a 3.5-STABLE box, which was upgraded through a buildworld
from 3.3-RELEASE, the problem was also present on 3.3.
Someone suggested I ran truss to see if I could figure out what
is happening. Well, I ran truss, but I'm still clueless, the
lines that seem to cause the delay are these:
syscall select(0x5,0xbfbfd5e0,0x0,0x0,0xbfbfd568)
returns 0 (0x0)
syscall sendto(0x4,0x80529f0,0x38,0x0,0x8052808,0x10)
returns 56 (0x38)
syscall gettimeofday(0xbfbfd570,0x0)
returns 0 (0x0)
syscall select(0x5,0xbfbfd5e0,0x0,0x0,0xbfbfd568)
returns 0 (0x0)
syscall sendto(0x4,0x80529f0,0x38,0x0,0x8052808,0x10)
returns 56 (0x38)
syscall gettimeofday(0xbfbfd570,0x0)
returns 0 (0x0)
syscall select(0x5,0xbfbfd5e0,0x0,0x0,0xbfbfd568)
returns 0 (0x0)
syscall sendto(0x4,0x80529f0,0x38,0x0,0x8052808,0x10)
returns 56 (0x38)
syscall gettimeofday(0xbfbfd570,0x0)
returns 0 (0x0)
syscall select(0x5,0xbfbfd5e0,0x0,0x0,0xbfbfd568)
returns 0 (0x0)
syscall close(4)
returns 0 (0x0)
syscall close(4)
errno 9 'Bad file descriptor'
The gettimeofday loop happens about every 5 seconds, then finally the
bad file descriptor comes up and it then seems to progress fairly
normally.
Any suggestions as what to do next would be appreciated.
TIA,
Jonathan
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