From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 4 17:39:13 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4CBA1065670 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 17:39:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jos@catnook.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A65FD8FC1A for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 17:39:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws11 with SMTP id 11so853312vws.13 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:39:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.89.36 with SMTP id bl4mr1583636vdb.10.1317748061141; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:07:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.188.35 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:07:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E8B2AA6.90204@coreitpro.com> References: <86sjn84wco.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4E8B2AA6.90204@coreitpro.com> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:07:41 -0700 Message-ID: From: Jos Backus To: "Sean M. Collins" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone use nscd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:39:14 -0000 On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Sean M. Collins 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