From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 4 6: 8: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41F9C37B408 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 06:08:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA09700; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:08:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f94D7YL27251; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:07:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15292.24342.741023.939305@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:07:34 -0400 (EDT) To: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au Cc: bandix@looksharp.net, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load In-Reply-To: <3BBBE105.9863D667@dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <20010928022500.I24843-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <3BBAD3F3.241A1FEE@dsto.defence.gov.au> <15291.10120.604882.602699@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3BBBE105.9863D667@dsto.defence.gov.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid 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 Thyer, Matthew writes: > So the answer is a name service caching daemon ala nscd on Solaris. > Or linux. Apparently, there is an nscd in glibc. Perhaps somebody with motivation could determine if its any good. If so, they could chop it out of glibc, make it into a port & add hooks to our libc for it. (I no longer work at Duke or even use NIS, so that motivated person would not be me). Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message