What about adding nscd

Jorge Santos jorge.jsf at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 01:44:34 UTC 2005


Hello, recently I had a few problems with my name resolution servers
and while searching for ways to solve (or workaround) this I
re-encountered nscd, which I dind't know also caches name resolutions.
 I think this may be a good way of improving user experience specially
while surfing the web.  What do Ubuntu's developers feel about adding
it to the default desktop installation?  It has a memory impact, for
sure, but I think it is worth.  Right now, in my computer, the system
monitor shows nscd as using a total of 41.9 MB, but it's RSS is only
840.0 KB, with 708.0 KB of shared memory (btw, is that part of the
RSS?, I wouldn't think so), this taking into account that I have
configured it to keep the name resolution data in cache for a day,
instead of for an hour as originally configured.

Bye,
Jorge




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