For work, I am using Oracle's Linux conception - for better or worse - and I decided to try and blog my findings as I go along. For one, so I can retrieve them later easily, but also to help others who may run into similar things. Hope it helps and lemme know what you think, if you have the time. Be it good or bad...
I've been playing a bit with the nscd now and want to share some tips related to tuning the nscd.conf file. To see how the DNS cache is doing, use nscd -g. nscd configuration: 0 server debug level 26m 57s server runtime 5 current number of threads 32 maximum number of threads 0 number of times clients had to wait yes paranoia mode enabled 3600 restart internal passwd cache: no cache is enabled [other zero output removed] group cache: no cache is enabled [other zero output removed] hosts cache: yes cache is enabled yes cache is persistent yes cache is shared 211 suggested size <==== 216064 total data pool size 1144 used data pool size 3600 seconds time to live for positive entries <==== 20 seconds time to live for negative entries
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