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