Re: FreeBSD question.

So, for the record, what really did you do to change the behavior?

On Jan 30, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Keith wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> 
> |->On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:19:23AM -0800 I heard the voice of
> |->Keith, and lo! it spake thus:
> |->>
> |->> So if the files are all owned by one person, its fine.
> |->
> |->[...]
> |->
> |->> Micheal suggested nscd, which I am looking into, but I have never
> |->> had to use it before on any of the servers I have run.
> |->
> |->Shouldn't be necessary at that scale.  Try changing nsswitch.conf over
> |->to just using 'files' for group and passwd.  It may be sneaking off
> |->through NIS routines and eating giant chunks of time.
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I was able to figure this out a few mins before I got your suggestion.
> 
> A post to freebsd-stable in 2007, a fellow had the same problem and
> the fix was to do exactly what you suggest. Once I had an idea where
> the slowness was coming from I was able to google-fu my way through it.
> 
> I did do a ktrace, and with nsswitch in compat and files mode.
> 
> I ctrl-c'd ktrace when it went on for more than about 5 mins and using
> nsswitch with compat I got an 11G trace. When using files instead of
> compat, I got a 9M trace file.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
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