Re: slow dnsserver with Solaris 2.5.1

According to David J N Begley's mail...
>
> On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, SO Kwok Tsun wrote:
>
> > have 832M and so it should not a problem of swap. If we do ordinary
> > nslookup, it's quite fast. However, all 20 dnsservers are busy. I
> > have started a dnsserver manually and the response is very slow even
> > I query a local hostname.
>
> Is "nscd" running? If so, check "/etc/nscd.conf" and ensure that the
> line:
>
> enable-cache hosts no
>
> is uncommented.
>
>
> dave
>

Thanks a lot.

You are right. After uncomment this line and restart nscd, it works
much better now. Just wonder why nscd affect that much on the
performance. So, what should be the value of memory_pools for Solaris
2.5.1? Will Solaris compete with squid for the caching?

So K T, CUHK
Received on Thu Nov 13 1997 - 18:10:14 MST