Looks like verdaccio-ldap having some problems with response time under load
Problem reproducible with verdaccio-ldap version >= 4.0.0
Works fine with version <= 3.1.0 and below
Result of testing with different versions:

For loading I used Locust and wrote few tests to download different pacakges, as well as request /-/ping and /-/whoami endpoints
In test I have used:
"verdaccio": "3.8.2" and "4.10.0",
"verdaccio-audit": "^9.7.3",
"verdaccio-ldap": "2.8.0", "3.1.0", "4.0.0", "4.0.1" 4.2.0"
This issue 82 might be connected to problem described above