Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 16:57:43 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: improving NIS speeds Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19991008165743.01746210@staff.sentex.ca>
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Hi, I am in the process of testing to see if NIS is the system for us. I havent got into any formal benchmarkings yet, but have noticed some speed differences. For example, running top, has a good 3 second delay before it displays anything. I imagine this is due to the looking up username-UID maps via NIS. Are there any optimizations that I can do ? I am concerned that if I make this a 20K user pop server, there will be similar delays each time at authentication time ? Or is it something special about top. I ordered the ORA "Managing NIS+NFS" book, but it hasnt arrived yet. In the mean time, are there any good online resources I could consult about NIS optimizations? Or should I just look at some other system like Kerberos. ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel 01.519.651.3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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