Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 07:42:38 +0000 From: "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com> To: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: nscd not caching Message-ID: <9C985132-212F-4F2D-BEBF-CFEAC0097CC9@netapp.com> In-Reply-To: <53F0D3F3.4030804@egr.msu.edu> References: <FA0C5D1E-780A-4B01-8513-5A4B77DA051D@netapp.com> <D86D34C6-B5E8-4141-BD9F-FF88B056DF6B@netapp.com> <53F0D3F3.4030804@egr.msu.edu>
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--Apple-Mail=_9AE9E1F9-0578-4535-AABB-9708E3D27C22 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, On 2014-8-17, at 18:10, Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> wrote: > We were using +::::::::: type entries in the local password and group > tables and I believe we used an unmodified /etc/nsswitch.conf = (excluding > cache lines while testing nscd): I tried that setup too, and it doesn't seem to be caching any NIS = lookups either. The current NIS server is 25ms away, which is a pain. I'm trying to get = a local slave set up, which will make the need for nscd go away, but it = would sure be nice if it worked in the meantime. > At our site, we never had enough load to outright require nscd on > FreeBSD, although there were some areas where caching had a usability > benefit. Load is not an issue, latency is (see above). > top was slow to open since it would load the whole passwd > table first, but top -u was a workaround. Right, I see that issue too. > As a workaround until we retired NIS, I wrote a hack of a script to > merge NIS groups into my local /etc/group files periodically from = cron. > Aside from bugs in my script, that worked well. I may end up doing this, too. Given all this, maybe it's time to retire nscd? Lars --Apple-Mail=_9AE9E1F9-0578-4535-AABB-9708E3D27C22 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQCVAwUBU/GuoNZcnpRveo1xAQI2CQQAheHMbkMzu/OwA6L0Vmk9ksLH4hTPGQ/6 ViB3Iwp9g6CFtlX2K4C6wNx9u5lPsTRNyTrB2cquo7vGS8AmXsNJpfNNGCfxEMHk dfNFxy0UJVJFQaj2lIRIO5BvbLkjDqCSVimnyY8PgqAyTuTP92FWZn+Cua92LlFn YI+6F9XReHw= =bcjW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_9AE9E1F9-0578-4535-AABB-9708E3D27C22--
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