Extreme load with local password db lookups

[Patrick van Iersel]

> From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen at kuzbass.ru>
> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:48:47 +0700
> To: Patrick van Iersel <pviersel at office.caiw.nl>
> Cc: freebsd-stable at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Extreme load with local password db lookups
> 
> 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.

Done :)

Patrick.