bin/75855: getpwent functions on 5.3 with large password file extremely slow

[Patrick van Iersel]

The following reply was made to PR bin/75855; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Patrick van Iersel <pviersel at office.caiw.nl>
To: <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>,
	<bruce at engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/75855: getpwent functions on 5.3 with large password file
	extremely slow
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:03:08 +0100

 This problem/bug still exists in 6.3-PRERELEASE (6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD
 6.3-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Dec  5 13:35:05 CET 2007).
 The more users there are in the password db, the bigger the impact on
 performance (we had around 74000 entries and this renders the system
 unusable).
 The mentioned workaround (nsswitch.conf) does help a lot. Performance does
 not match that of 4-stable, but it handles large(r) user bases well enough.