Re: Tar (but not cp) is incredible slow on certain dirs; request for comments/solution ideas/clues.

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@cygnus.com)
21 Jan 1999 17:39:13 -0800


Dietmar Goldbeck <dietmar@telemedia.de> writes:

> If this doesn't match in /etc/passwd neither in NIS it causes
> a NIS request for _every_ file. Seems that misses don't get
> cached with Linux glibc NIS support.

The library itself must not cache things. But if you would use the
nscd from glibc 2.1 you'd see there is no problem anymore.

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