Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nis
In an enterprise environment, an Ubuntu user (administrator) installs
the 'nis' package, for shared passwd and group directories, however,
since the information isn't cached, against a busy or remote NIS server,
performance suffers with very frequent entry lookup.
A simple example is 'ls -l', which stats every entry in a directory,
causing a small storm of NIS requests everytime it is done on a
directory with many different entries. Scale this up to an office with a
few hundred systems, and the NIS request rate can be wastefully high,
particularly on shared login boxes, which would see maximal benefit.
nscd prevents processes sleeping for a non-local NIS response every time
and is lightweight, and has appropriate record ageing/expiry.
Thus, the package nis should recommend nscd.
** Affects: nis (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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nis should recommend nscd
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345137
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