Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 18:22:07 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru> To: Patrick van Iersel <pviersel@office.caiw.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extreme load with local password db lookups Message-ID: <20071206112207.GA74486@svzserv.kemerovo.su> In-Reply-To: <C37D8F8E.39687%pviersel@office.caiw.nl> References: <C37D8F8E.39687%pviersel@office.caiw.nl>
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:37:50AM +0100, Patrick van Iersel wrote: > Here's the situation. We have an web/ftp server with around 74000 users > defined in the local unix password database. On 4.9-stable which it is > running now, there is no noticable load when lookups are done (logins via > ftp, ~user lookups from apache etc.). We want to migrate this system to > 6-stable. > However on 6-STABLE (FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Dec 5 13:35:05 CET > 2007) these same lookups cause very high load and things slow down to a > crawl. > > Does anybody have an idea what causes this behavior? > > Thanx in advance for any insights. Take a look to your /etc/nsswitch.conf. If you do not use NIS, try to change lines for 'group' and 'passwd' to look like this: group: files passwd: files Eugene Grosbein
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