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Re: [PATCH] nscd: Improve nscd.conf comments.
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 17:45:13 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] nscd: Improve nscd.conf comments.
- References: <1d146c96-1c6f-c7d0-9a7e-bcaede3757f2@redhat.com>
* Carlos O'Donell:
> +# NOTE: Setting 'shared' to a value of 'yes' will accelerate the lookup
> +# with the help of the client, but these lookups will not be
> +# counted as cache hits i.e. 'nscd -g' may show '0%'.
The “with the help of the client” part is quite confusing. I think you
should say that for the shared case, nscd does not observe any cache
hits at all. It's not that the client performs the lookup on behalf of
nscd or something like that.
Thanks,
Florian