Linda, On Saturday 18 December 2004 15:33, Linda A. W. wrote:
I'm wondering why nscd seems to have the largest size of any system program running on my system? It has a listed size of 10706K. I look at the functionality and my configs:
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I mean takes ~10Meg to cache 37 passwd entries, 53 group entries and their access routines? Is it "reasonable" to expect that a program that has to manage 2 files:
What's the big deal? On my system, it's over 42 megabytes, but only 756K are resident. If I were you, I'd only concern myself with the resident size (the "RSS" column in long-form "ps" output). To be honest, I don't know what use is being made of NIS on this system. There's me logging via kdm to KDE, including several shells and I have one remote user who logs in via SSH. I don't use NFS or Samba or run a mail server. I do have Tomcat at Apache running. I have only local password storage and there are no other machines on my LAN. But guess what. I don't really care. If circumstances were to demand that I educate myself about how NIS within Linux and / or SuSE systems, I'd do it, of course. But as it is, stuff works, and that's good enough for me.
-rw-r--r-- 1 shadow 1.6K 2004-11-03 19:11 /etc/group -rw-r--r-- 1 root 4.6K 2004-10-17 15:11 /etc/passwd
with about 6.2K of data to require a 10M run-size footprint?
If this isn't the correct place for this, could someone point me where to ask this question?
Thanks! Linda
Unless you're dealing with an actual problem, I'd remain blissfully ignorant of all the fancy stuff under the hood, just as you probably do with your car. Randall Schulz