From: Mike van der Velden (mvanderv@redback.com)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 17:20:36 EDT
I have seen numerous posts on this list where I see that people have turned
off nscd, either as a general policy, or because it was just getting in the
way and slowing things down.
I, too, have seen problems with nscd. Odd things just stop working, or just
work real slowly, like mail delivery, etc., and the solution often is to
restart nscd. (we use solaris 8). The patches available for nscd don't seem
to address these issues.
One FAQ I found said that one should *not* disable nscd on Solari > 2.6.
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-14.html
So, what are the ramifications if I *do* turn it off? Options are:
1. Disable it everywhere
2. Leave it up on client systems, but disable it on servers.
3. Leave it enabled on all clients and certain servers that might
need nscd, say web servers, squid, etc.
4. Edit nscd.conf to reduce what it caches, or increase or decrease
the various timeouts.
What do you do, and why?
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