Re: slow LDAP lookups

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

When you checkbox caching, I believe that just enables nscd.  Make sure
"chkconfig --list nscd" says on for runlevel 3-5 and make sure it's
running by running "service nscd status".

/Brian/

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 13:31, David Stutzman wrote:
> I have set up a taroon client to authenticate against a RH 7.3 server 
> running an instance of Netscape Directory Server (their implementation 
> of an LDAP server).  I checked the option in authconfig to enable 
> caching of user information, but it doesn't appear to have any effect on 
> the time it takes to login to a system or do an ls -l which shows 
> username and groupname rather than UID and GID.  The client and server 
> are plugged into the same fast ethernet switch so I doubt network lag is 
> the issue.  Using the Netscape console gui to add/modify records shows 
> instantaneous lookup/search responses so I doubt that is the problem.  
> Watching the log for the ldap server shows that the caching is having no 
> effect because I see multiple lookups of the same exact search string 
> happening one after the other.  Has anyone had any experience with using 
> Netscape Directory Server for LDAP authentication/user info?  Any 
> suggestions on speeding things up?
> 
> Dave
> 
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