From owner-freebsd-hackers  Tue Jul 20 10: 7: 9 1999
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To: Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD, and userfs too. 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:06:34 -0700
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On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:02:43 +0100 
 Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> wrote:

 > How will you get around one of the major bugbears of the Solaris
 > implementation, that is nscd serialises access to these databases?  I
 > understand that the caching will allow you to return most responses
 > quickly, but on a busy system (web cache doing dns requests?) it might
 > well bog down...

Yes, that is a known issue, and one of the things we're hoping to avoid,
but just how that will be done is as-of-yet-undetermined.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>



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