Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:07:41 -0700 From: Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> To: "Sean M. Collins" <sean@coreitpro.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone use nscd? Message-ID: <CAETOPp2Vbn5NWDjywtdEVuA6Gp2Tb6SfmC=2uTA2qK2vUXHyAQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E8B2AA6.90204@coreitpro.com> References: <86sjn84wco.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4E8B2AA6.90204@coreitpro.com>
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On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Sean M. Collins <sean@coreitpro.com> wrote: > I've never heard of the utility until you mentioned it. > > I'd nuke it, since really there are more popular alternatives like Redis > and Memcached in the ports tree that most people will reach for first. > > Fwiw, nscd serves a somewhat different purpose, at least on Linux. It caches name service switch backend lookups. I can't really imagine one replacing it with Redis or memcached; those tools would require a bunch of work to integrate them with the resolver code in libc/libresolv/whathaveyou. Jos -- > Sean M. Collins > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.com
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