Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah@zimbra.com writes:
Buchan Milne bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net wrote:
Or ensure that clients aren't abusing connections, and eating up the available file descriptors. For example, one thing to do is to ensure that clients run nscd (so each client creates only one connection to the server).
Honestly I'm shocked to see nscd recommended given all the nightmares it causes people...
Seems to work fine for us for caching LDAP replies on 100 machines or so (nothing fancy, just straight NIS schema). Just don't use it for DNS. :)