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Date:      Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:05:59 +0200
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: uid/gid lookups slower on 6.2 than 4.x?
Message-ID:  <200704110206.08099.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070410231942.GB13500@sysmon.tcworks.net>
References:  <20070410231942.GB13500@sysmon.tcworks.net>

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On Wednesday 11 April 2007 01:19, Scott Lambert wrote:
> I've run into an interesting performance "issue" with ls on a
> 6.2-STABLE box, web1.  This box is going to replace my current 4.11
> box, ns, and is not currently active.  It's running all the daemons it
> will be in production, but traffic is not pointed at it yet.
>
> I don't think the gmirror vs. adaptec RAID disk subsystem would explain
> the performance differences.  I could be wrong.  If I am, I'm going to
> have to get a RAID card for the new box.
>
> root@web1 /home
> 17:58:57 Tue Apr 10 # time ls -l | wc -l
>     3135
>
> real    0m35.224s
> user    0m6.748s
> sys     0m28.482s
=2E..
> root@web1 /home
> 18:01:13 Tue Apr 10 #  uname -a
> FreeBSD web1.hosting.tcworks.net 6.2-STABLE-200702 FreeBSD
> 6.2-STABLE-200702 #0: Sun Feb  4 13:35:09 UTC 2007   =20
> root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386
>
> root@web1 /home
> 18:03:38 Tue Apr 10 # time ls -ln | wc -l
>     3135
>
> real    0m0.054s
> user    0m0.030s
> sys     0m0.031s

Well, with nsswitch things are a bit more difficult.  If you don't need=20
it, you can just use nsswitch.conf to turn it off for passwd/group. =20
Otherwise, you'll have to look at MFCing cached(8) from current.

=2D-=20
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