Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 02 Feb 1999 20:27:56 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: SLOW SLOW SLOW tar with 2.2.0 |
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Thierry Danis wrote: > We have here at work a group NIS map with ~ 1000 entries. > To make things go faster (logging, su, ls, etc.), we > removed 'nisplus' and 'nis' from the group line in > nsswitch.conf and run : > > $ cp -f /etc/group-orig /etc/group+ > $ ypcat group >>/etc/group+ > $ mv -f /etc/group+ /etc/group > > each time the group NIS map is modified (and regularly > every night through a cron). > > If we don't do that, each file access last a long time, > with a lot of request towards our NIS server (Note that
I noticed the same problem 4-5 years ago, and ended up hacking libc to be more clever about things -- maintaining a local cache of recently looked-up entries. I have long since lost the hacks, though.
HP-UX used to have the same problem. -- mlord@pobox.com
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