Extreme load with local password db lookups
Jeremy Chadwick
koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Thu Dec 6 23:49:10 PST 2007
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:44:37AM +0100, Patrick van Iersel wrote:
> > From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen at 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.
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