[CentOS] Perfomance tuning for NIS client

[Steve Rigler]

On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 03:45 +0800, joseph blase wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I have both linux and solaris NIS client against a Solaris NIS Server,
> but my linux box are shamefully slow compare to solaris some sample:
>  
> on Solaris 5.8:
>  
> # ypwhich
> transporter02.domain.com
> # time id userid
> uid=36923(userid) gid=36923(u_036923)
>  
> real        0.0
> user        0.0
> sys         0.0
>  
> on Linux:
>  
> [root at linux]# ypwhich
> transporter02.domain.com
> [root at amsdc2-n-s04taw root]# time id userid
> uid=36923(userid) gid=36923(u_036923) groups=36923(u_036923)
>  
> real    0m10.509s
> user    0m0.030s
> sys     0m0.090s
> 

Do you have nscd running on the Linux box?  Enabling it will allow
caching of lookups to passwd, group and hosts.

-Steve