No, I am not running NIS. Just simple text /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 12:38:45PM -0500, Richard Kaszeta wrote: > Christopher J. Fearnley writes ("Re: Serious performance bug in Perl"): > >to call it (instead of the default perl - 5.004.04-6). Performance > >improved several hundred-fold. So I believe the problem is either in > >perl or libc6. > > > >Any suggestions on how to resolve this? As I said before the slowdown > >seems to occur in the get_current_uids subroutine (and possible > >get_current_gids). Which has a loop on getpwent (and getgrent). > > > >Can anyone else duplicate this behavior? > > I can duplicate this behavior. Performance gets exponentially better > if I move my NIS password records into the local password file. So in > my case I am tempted to blame libc6's NIS performance (which in other > circumstances I have found to be rather slow anyways) > > Are you running NIS? > > -- > Richard W Kaszeta Graduate Student/Sysadmin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept > http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
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