Re: Long Format Directory Listing 15x Slower in FreeBSD 5.x

2005-09-14 Thread Nikolai Schupbach
If you are using NIS and have any compat options in /etc/nsswitch.conf your performance will really suck in situations like this. IIRC, the compat code is worse than O(n^2) if you look up each user and the non-compat code is close to O(n). I'd really like to stop generating nsswitch.conf entri

Re: Long Format Directory Listing 15x Slower in FreeBSD 5.x

2005-09-12 Thread Nikolai Schupbach
Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:37:27PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:33:53PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:51:44PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:55:55AM +1200, Nikolai Schupbach wrote:

Re: Long Format Directory Listing 15x Slower in FreeBSD 5.x

2005-09-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:37:27PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:33:53PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:51:44PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:55:55AM +1200, Nikolai Schupbach wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > >

Re: Long Format Directory Listing 15x Slower in FreeBSD 5.x

2005-09-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:33:53PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:51:44PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:55:55AM +1200, Nikolai Schupbach wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > We have been trying to migrate to FreeBSD 5.4 from an older 4.x release >

Re: Long Format Directory Listing 15x Slower in FreeBSD 5.x

2005-09-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:51:44PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:55:55AM +1200, Nikolai Schupbach wrote: > > Hello, > > > > We have been trying to migrate to FreeBSD 5.4 from an older 4.x release > > for one of our busy mail servers. But we have encountered problems wit

Re: Long Format Directory Listing 15x Slower in FreeBSD 5.x

2005-09-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:55:55AM +1200, Nikolai Schupbach wrote: > Hello, > > We have been trying to migrate to FreeBSD 5.4 from an older 4.x release > for one of our busy mail servers. But we have encountered problems with > directory listings on 5.4. > > Our /var/mail directory contains app

Long Format Directory Listing 15x Slower in FreeBSD 5.x

2005-09-12 Thread Nikolai Schupbach
Hello, We have been trying to migrate to FreeBSD 5.4 from an older 4.x release for one of our busy mail servers. But we have encountered problems with directory listings on 5.4. Our /var/mail directory contains approximately 8,000 files doing a long directory listing (ls -l) takes approximat