From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 27 23:34:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@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 0981337B414; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:34:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 7D5303E98; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 02:34:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79DA4BAB3; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 02:34:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 02:34:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: , , , Subject: Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load In-Reply-To: <20010927231327V.jkh@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20010928022500.I24843-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >Progress in these types of situations nearly always comes from people >with enough self-interest in the problem area to actually commit to >working on it. Rather than asking for people who have written an >autofsd to step forward, why not instead start working on this project >yourselves and ask for volunteers to HELP you address the problem? >That's taking on the problem from the right end, IMHO. I agree wholeheartedly Jordan. My self-interest in the problem has at least motivated me enough to go reading the applicable source but I've not had time lately to work on actual patches. I've got a lot of irons in the fire at the moment, especially with students being back around (I'm a sysadmin at Vanderbilt University) but when things quiet down I do intend to work on this. At the moment I sit daily in front of an SGI Indigo2 running IRIX because it's better than Linux and integrates quite well with our environment. I really want a FreeBSD workstation on my desk, so I'll likely end up writing the patches just so I can get that FreeBSD workstation integrated. But, no promises on a timeframe so if someone else wants to get started now, then by all means charge right ahead with it. -- "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-current" in the body of the message