From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 27 21:55:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-d.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.13.43.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A34D637B40D; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 21:55:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 231A23E98; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:55:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1596FBAAD; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:55:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:55:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: "Thyer, Matthew" Cc: Stephen McKay , , Subject: Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load In-Reply-To: <3BB3FDF2.27A7B8FB@dsto.defence.gov.au> Message-ID: <20010928005036.W24028-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Thyer, Matthew wrote: >Now that is something I do care about and FreeBSD's possible poor >NIS client performance is making it look very bad in a large UNIX >network such as the one we run here. > >Combine that with the fact that FreeBSD has no automounter that is >compatible with the commercial UNIX systems and you'll see that >FreeBSD is missing out in some key markets (being a client in a >larger UNIX network). I have echoed these sentiments many times on this same mailing list. I am faced with the same problem. I admin a large, heterogenous NIS/NFS/autofs domain and integrating just one FreeBSD box into is so hacking it's embarassing. >[I dont want to hear the arguments of "Use AMD, it's better" >because there are many situations where the client cannot control >what NIS maps the server will provide]. You post messages like this on FreeBSD mailing lists and from personal experience I can guarantee you'll get lots of "help" converting to AMD. >So if anyone has something useful to offer re: investigating of >FreeBSD's NIS client performance, please reply. This message isn't particularly useful, but I am at least sympathetic to your plight. >Also news along the lines of "I have written an autofsd and need >people to test it" would be good too. AFAIK nobody has written an autofsd for BSD, but the amd maintainers (now known as am-utils and in src/contrib) have stuff on their website about adding autofs support to amd, but it doesn't appear to be very far along. -- "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -- /usr/games/fortune, 07/30/2001 Brandon D. Valentine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message