misc/112614: 'ls -l' is very slow or doesn't work at all

[John Flanagan]

The following reply was made to PR misc/112614; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Flanagan <jpf at wave-star.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc: seal at inar.ru
Subject: Re: misc/112614: 'ls -l' is very slow or doesn't work at all
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:46:00 -0500

 Removing all but a few users from the master password file will eliminate
 the extreme slowdown in ls -l response time which would suggest it is
 related to uid to name resolution.
 
 This is an extremely annoying issue and it is beyond belief that few if
 any people haven't escalated this bug to a high level.
 
 I have access to two FreeBSD 6.2 stable machines that have this problem.
 
 If anyone has a solution, fix or workaround, please share.
 
 --jpf.