Yup, indeed, nslcd is slow enough on its own that nscd helps despite its
flaws...
At this point, the only reason we haven't made the switch to sssd is that
nslcd works just well enough not to become a project to replace it.
On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 08:08:32AM +0100, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote:
To be clear I am talking about the Name Service Cacheing Daemon
I have always found this to be more trouble than it is worth - it holds on
to out of date information,
and needs to be restarted when you are debugging things like batch systems
etc.
nslcd is something completely different (*) and