From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 27 21:47:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from digger1.defence.gov.au (digger1.defence.gov.au [203.5.217.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B6F037B40B; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 21:47:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au (dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.150]) by digger1.defence.gov.au (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f8S4l6827739; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:17:06 +0930 (CST) Received: from muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (unverified) by dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.1.5) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:15:32 +0930 Received: from salex001.dsto.defence.gov.au (salex001.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.9]) by muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/8.9.3.LMD.990513) with ESMTP id OAA14534; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:04:58 +0930 (CST) Received: from fang.dsto.defence.gov.au ([131.185.2.5]) by salex001.dsto.defence.gov.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id TY39ZK5P; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:04:54 +0930 Received: from dsto.defence.gov.au (fuzz.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.75.229]) by fang.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/8.9.3.LMD.990513) with ESMTP id OAA00551; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:04:58 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <3BB3FDF2.27A7B8FB@dsto.defence.gov.au> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:04:58 +0930 From: "Thyer, Matthew" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen McKay Cc: chat@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load References: <3BAEEE9E.B8DCDD3C@dsto.defence.gov.au> <200109261353.f8QDrbG22971@dungeon.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stephen McKay wrote: > > On Monday, 24th September 2001, "Thyer, Matthew" wrote: > > > IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence > > Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the > > CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are > > requested to contact the sender and delete the email. > > Firstly I must say, "Ha! Ha! Ha! HA! HA! !!" > > Secondly, does your employer really think they own email even in the > recipient's mailbox? I mean, I've got a copy of your email. Does that > mean DSTO will come and take it back one day? Kick my door in and take > all my gear? "Just a precaution, sir! You might have some of our mail." > > Or is it just useless lawyer bluster wasting my precious existence? Do you think I care ? > PS I don't use NIS so I have no idea about your FreeBSD problem. Sorry. 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 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]. So if anyone has something useful to offer re: investigating of FreeBSD's NIS client performance, please reply. Also news along the lines of "I have written an autofsd and need people to test it" would be good too. -- Matthew Thyer Phone: +61 8 8259 7249 Science Corporate Information Systems Fax: +61 8 8259 5537 Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Edinburgh PO Box 1500 Edinburgh South Australia 5111 IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message