On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 05:54:01PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 20:19 +0200, Michal Židek wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would like to have this option in SSSD for debugging purposes. It is > > not documented, so it should be invisible for users (but I can add it to > > man pages as well, if someone thinks it is useful to have it there). > > This would cause you to have stale mmap cache files on the system, > wouldn't it make more sense to have an environment variable for the > client libraries instead and have them ignore the mmap cache when you > want to test something ?
This sounds like a good idea. > It could also be documented as it may be a useful workaround should a > user find a bug that hits the mmap_cache and wants a temporary way to > avoid it even if with performance penalty for a specific application. > > Something like SSS_NSS_USE_MEMCACHE=yes/no > > defaulting to yes, if no env var is found. If I can speak for Michal -- we discussed that it might be nice to be able to temporarily disable the memcache somehow, but if there was a documented way, hitting memcache problems would simply disable it and don't even report a bug. Kind of like users switching SELinux to Permissive. _______________________________________________ sssd-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-devel
