From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 8 13:59:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B9C14F8F; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 13:59:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA07638; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:59:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991008165743.01746210@staff.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@staff.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 16:57:43 -0400 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: improving NIS speeds Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am in the process of testing to see if NIS is the system for us. I havent got into any formal benchmarkings yet, but have noticed some speed differences. For example, running top, has a good 3 second delay before it displays anything. I imagine this is due to the looking up username-UID maps via NIS. Are there any optimizations that I can do ? I am concerned that if I make this a 20K user pop server, there will be similar delays each time at authentication time ? Or is it something special about top. I ordered the ORA "Managing NIS+NFS" book, but it hasnt arrived yet. In the mean time, are there any good online resources I could consult about NIS optimizations? Or should I just look at some other system like Kerberos. ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel 01.519.651.3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message