Extreme load with local password db lookups

[Eugene Grosbein]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:44:37AM +0100, Patrick van Iersel wrote:

> > 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.

It would be nice if you make a followup to the PR for the record
with a notice about your problem and mention 6.3-PRERELEASE there.

Eugene Grosbein