Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:01:57 +0200 From: Uffe Jakobsen <uffe@uffe.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone use nscd? Message-ID: <4E8B661A.7080307@uffe.org> In-Reply-To: <4E8B3C17.7000902@freebsd.org> References: <86sjn84wco.fsf@ds4.des.no> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110041800290.18373@mail.fig.ol.no> <86obxw4s4w.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4E8B3C17.7000902@freebsd.org>
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On 2011-10-04 19:02, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 10/4/11 9:51 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >> Trond Endrestøl<Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no> writes: >>> It's in daily use at Gjøvik Technical College (Fagskolen i Gjøvik), >>> here in Norway. Both the mail and web servers authenticates our users >>> by LDAP, and nscd certainly speeds up the lookups. >> OK. No trouble with clients dying of SIGPIPE? I could never reproduce >> the bug, but both users who reported problems used ldap, and I don't >> have an LDAP server to test against, so I thought it might be specific >> to LDAP. >> > I had never heard of it until now but it looks as though I could have used > it several times in the past. > > We should have people announce new features just like new committers. > > "Hi, my name is nscd, I cache data that is accessed through the nsswitch > system.... etc." > FYI: If you've ever used a Solaris box then you've used without knowing it. Solaris has used nscd by default the last 16 years - since Solaris 2.5 And yes it serverely speeds up nameservice lookups on large installations wheter it be plain files, NIS, NIS+, LDAP ot the like... /Uffe
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