Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 16:54:05 +0930 From: "Thyer, Matthew" <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: bandix@looksharp.net, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load Message-ID: <3BBD6015.9EB74634@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> <15292.24342.741023.939305@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > 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). Hmmm.... now where was that motivation pill.... under this huge stack of work last I saw it. Seriously, thanks for the info... I may well get motivated once I get a quiet time. -- 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
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