Re: [SLE] Mozilla strangness

On Monday 25 November 2002 14.41, zentara wrote:

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 03:25:58 +0100 (CET)

"Carlos E. R." wrote:

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The 02.11.23 at 10:45, zentara wrote:

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Maybe try stopping nscd (Name Service Cache Daemon) in services, you don't need it if you don't run your own DNS. Mozilla runs fine for me here.

Nscd doesn't have much to do with DNS; it caches passwd, group, hosts, etc.

The reason I mentioned it, was the OP said the first error message was "VM killed nscd" as his machine was running out of memory.

I always turn that nscd off on my dialup machine. So what does it actually do for you.?

It caches name service lookups :) If you have a slow connection to your DNS, or NIS server, or whatever, it caches the responses locally so the second time you look it up you get an instant response. So you had it backwards: You don't need nscd if you do run your own DNS, at least not for dns queries. If you do run bind or something, that will usually cache for you. Anders