On 10/12/07, joseph blase <joseph.mailboxlist at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 10/13/07, Steve Rigler <srigler at marathonoil.com> wrote: > > 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. > > Yes there is and running. > > > -Steve > > Joseph In my case nscd does make a difference as pointed out earlier. On my CentOS machine, Without nscd: real 0m0.116s user 0m0.008s sys 0m0.014s With nscd: real 0m0.007s user 0m0.002s sys 0m0.004s My Solaris box is running nscd: 0.03u 0.01s 0:00.05 Akemi