From owner-freebsd-security Mon Mar 15 10:57: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D9714E87 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:56:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA01689; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:55:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:55:38 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199903151855.KAA01689@apollo.backplane.com> To: Fernando Schapachnik Cc: robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org, peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACL's References: <199903151237.JAA28887@ns1.sminter.com.ar> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org : :Let me tell you a situation where there is a clear performance loose when :using soft links. : :Heavy used Solaris mail server. /var/mail softlinked to /export/mail (lot :of space there). :Having around 7000+ users, support calls about "mail retreival is slow" :started to appear. :Solution: Compile POP3d to use /export/mail directly. Everyone happy again. : :Regards. : :Fernando P. Schapachnik :Administracion de la red This is due to the way solaris's namei() caching works. It shouldn't be as big an issue under FreeBSD. Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message