>>>>> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:31:40 +0000 (UTC),
      christos@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) said:

>> $ time id smj
>> load: 0.35  cmd: id 16846 [poll] 0.12u 0.20s 0% 1472k
>> load: 0.35  cmd: id 16846 [poll] 0.24u 0.41s 2% 1472k
>> load: 0.35  cmd: id 16846 [poll] 0.43u 0.69s 4% 1472k
>> load: 0.32  cmd: id 16846 [poll] 0.53u 0.84s 4% 1472k
>> load: 0.32  cmd: id 16846 [poll] 0.58u 0.93s 5% 1472k
>> uid=1001(smj) gid=0(wheel)
>> groups=0(wheel),500(arpa),800(instructor),600(MetaARPA)
>> 16.16s real     1.65s user     2.65s system

eww, 16 seconds.

> I think that this is an issue with the rpc library. I forget the exact
> bug report now. Do you have the same problem in current? 

I'm using NetBSD 3.0/i386 as a NIS client without the problem.

% uname -a
NetBSD srapc765.sra.co.jp 3.0 NetBSD 3.0 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Dec 19 01:04:02 UTC 2005  builds@works.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-RELEASE/i386/200512182024Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
% ps agxuw|grep ypbind
root   401  0.0  0.3  148   784 ?     Ss   Sat01PM 0:11.26 /usr/sbin/ypbind 
% /usr/bin/time id soda
uid=2924(soda) gid=2000(mmb) groups=2000(mmb),0(wheel),5(operator),9(wsrc),31750(etl),70(pgsql),72(authpf)
        0.14 real         0.05 user         0.03 sys

What's the difference?
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soda