Quoting Bruce Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ... > Well, somewhat unbelievably, copying a getpwent.c from 4.7 > and remaking libc on 5.3 with it worked. Load average > has gone from 70 to 2. >
One of my co-workers has found a less kludgey workaround for the high load problem we were seeing on 5.3 with large /etc/master.passwd, as follows: --- /etc/nsswitch.conf.old Wed Jan 5 19:23:24 2005 +++ /etc/nsswitch.conf Wed Jan 5 19:23:43 2005 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -group: compat +group: files group_compat: nis hosts: files dns networks: files -passwd: compat +passwd: files passwd_compat: nis shells: files System is purring with load average under 1 now, 200,000 pop/imap sessions per day and 200,000 e-mails per day, all spamassassinated. For more details and ongoing followup, see: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=75855 -- Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing CPH-2374B University of Waterloo (519)888-4567 ext 5889 ---------------------------------------- This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"