Top takes long to start

[Trond Endrestøl]

On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 10:04+0200, Johan Hendriks wrote:

> Hello all.
> 
> We use a central LDAP server with about 10k of user accounts.
> This is all running on Ubuntu servers. When we use top on a linux
> client, top starts instant.
> Now we are in the process of adding some FreeBSD server in the mix.
> One thing we noticed is the fact that as soon as we enable ldap top
> takes about 3 to 5 seconds to start on the FreeBSD hosts.
> 
> # top -u  have no problems.
> I found an old topic that top search for the longest username, but
> clould not find anything else.
> 
> Is there something I can do to speed up the start time of top.

How about using the nscd(8) service on the FreeBSD servers?

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