nscd

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Roger Oberholtzer:
> 
> Is there really any benefit to running nscd (name service cache daemon)? The
> system running it is a firewall that does name lookup in the world, but not
> for so many users. To me it seems unnecessary. Any opinions?

My guess is that nscd is most helpful if/when name service lookups
are heavily used internally. Try disabling it and see what, if anything,
changes. The NSS stuff is handled by the C library anyway, so you might
not notice.

Kurt
-- 
"Speed is subsittute fo accurancy."