kern/75855: getpwent functions on 5.3 with large password file
extremely slow
Bruce Campbell
bruce at engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Jan 5 11:30:37 PST 2005
The following reply was made to PR kern/75855; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Bruce Campbell <bruce at engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, bruce at engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Cc:
Subject: Re: kern/75855: getpwent functions on 5.3 with large password file extremely slow
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:28:25 -0500
I have a workaround.
I copied /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/getpwent.c from a 4.7 system onto
the 5.3 system, and then remade and installed libc.
Load average on our mail server went from 70 to 2.
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Bruce Campbell
Engineering Computing
CPH-2374B
University of Waterloo
(519)888-4567 ext 5889
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