Re: Serious performance bug in Perl
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
> bofh@me.umn.edu University of MN, ME Dept
> http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
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