From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 30 11:59:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25339 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:59:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles147.castles.com [208.214.165.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25326; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:59:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05421; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:56:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812301956.LAA05421@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Gary Palmer" cc: Brian Behlendorf , The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NOW/MOSIX/Beowulf In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Dec 1998 03:11:29 EST." <16298.915005489@gjp.erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:56:10 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I dont count `LDAP' as a highly-scalable service. Sure, it is one that > is very supportive of horizontal scaling (throwing more servers at it), > but from all the indications I've seen/heard its a lot more resource > intensive than it needs to be, and likely will not be deployed large > scale where I work for that very reason (we'll grow a distributed > password system inhouse) Have you actually evaulated it, or are you just going on word-of-mouth? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message