From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 4 20:02:20 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91275106564A for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 20:02:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uffe@uffe.org) Received: from mail.starion.dk (mx0.starion.dk [93.162.70.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5D408FC0A for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 20:02:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 33004 invoked by uid 1004); 4 Oct 2011 20:02:28 -0000 Message-ID: <4E8B661A.7080307@uffe.org> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:01:57 +0200 From: Uffe Jakobsen X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: internal/draft; vcard=0; receipt=0; DSN=0; uuencode=0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110922 Lightning/1.0b2 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer , hackers@freebsd.org References: <86sjn84wco.fsf@ds4.des.no> <86obxw4s4w.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4E8B3C17.7000902@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4E8B3C17.7000902@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: 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 20:02:20 -0000 On 2011-10-04 19:02, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 10/4/11 9:51 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >> Trond Endrestøl 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