From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 5 0:28:15 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 82D2E37B405 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 00:28:00 -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 f957RM803848 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 16:57:22 +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, 5 Oct 2001 16:55:45 +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 QAA26182; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 16:54:04 +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 4AVVS3L2; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 16:54:00 +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 QAA06096; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 16:54:03 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <3BBD6015.9EB74634@dsto.defence.gov.au> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 16:54:05 +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: Andrew Gallatin Cc: bandix@looksharp.net, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load 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> 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 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