| Message ID | 1d146c96-1c6f-c7d0-9a7e-bcaede3757f2@redhat.com |
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| State | New |
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| Series | nscd: Improve nscd.conf comments. | expand |
* 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
On 8/16/19 11:45 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * 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. I guess you're right the client does the lookup itself, not on behalf of nscd, it gets to do it's own lookup for iteslf. IIUC you are suggesting that the implementation detail is not relevant to the note that nscd will not see the cache hits? That's a good point and simplifies this NOTE. How about something like this: ~~~ NOTE: Setting 'shared' to a value of 'yes' will accelerate the lookup, but those lookups will not be counted as cache hits i.e. 'nscd -g' may show '0%'. ~~~ That avoids implementation details but documents the current behaviour that you get when you enable the shared cache and expect lookups to contribute to cache hit statistics. Does that text look OK?
* Carlos O'Donell: > How about something like this: > ~~~ > NOTE: Setting 'shared' to a value of 'yes' will accelerate the lookup, > but those lookups will not be counted as cache hits i.e. 'nscd -g' > may show '0%'. > ~~~ > > That avoids implementation details but documents the current behaviour > that you get when you enable the shared cache and expect lookups to > contribute to cache hit statistics. > > Does that text look OK? Yes, much better. Thanks, Florian
On 8/16/19 12:13 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Carlos O'Donell: > >> How about something like this: >> ~~~ >> NOTE: Setting 'shared' to a value of 'yes' will accelerate the lookup, >> but those lookups will not be counted as cache hits i.e. 'nscd -g' >> may show '0%'. >> ~~~ >> >> That avoids implementation details but documents the current behaviour >> that you get when you enable the shared cache and expect lookups to >> contribute to cache hit statistics. >> >> Does that text look OK? > > Yes, much better. v2 with rewritten text.
* Carlos O'Donell: > diff --git a/nscd/nscd.conf b/nscd/nscd.conf > index 39b875912d..487ffe461d 100644 > --- a/nscd/nscd.conf > +++ b/nscd/nscd.conf > @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ > # > # An example Name Service Cache config file. This file is needed by nscd. > # > +# WARNING: Running nscd with a secondary caching service like sssd may lead to > +# unexpected behaviour, especially with how long entries are cached. > +# > # Legal entries are: > # > # logfile <file> > @@ -23,6 +26,9 @@ > # check-files <service> <yes|no> > # persistent <service> <yes|no> > # shared <service> <yes|no> > +# NOTE: Setting 'shared' to a value of 'yes' will accelerate the lookup, > +# but those lookups will not be counted as cache hits > +# i.e. 'nscd -g' may show '0%'. > # max-db-size <service> <number bytes> > # auto-propagate <service> <yes|no> > # Looks good to me, thanks. Florian
On 8/16/19 4:53 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Carlos O'Donell: > >> diff --git a/nscd/nscd.conf b/nscd/nscd.conf >> index 39b875912d..487ffe461d 100644 >> --- a/nscd/nscd.conf >> +++ b/nscd/nscd.conf >> @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ >> # >> # An example Name Service Cache config file. This file is needed by nscd. >> # >> +# WARNING: Running nscd with a secondary caching service like sssd may lead to >> +# unexpected behaviour, especially with how long entries are cached. >> +# >> # Legal entries are: >> # >> # logfile <file> >> @@ -23,6 +26,9 @@ >> # check-files <service> <yes|no> >> # persistent <service> <yes|no> >> # shared <service> <yes|no> >> +# NOTE: Setting 'shared' to a value of 'yes' will accelerate the lookup, >> +# but those lookups will not be counted as cache hits >> +# i.e. 'nscd -g' may show '0%'. >> # max-db-size <service> <number bytes> >> # auto-propagate <service> <yes|no> >> # > > Looks good to me, thanks. Pushed. Thanks. I'm rebasing Fedora to use this file now. That harmonizes all of our downstream changes for nscd.conf and nsswitch.conf.
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 23df9a3545..6309e7cac7 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2019-08-16 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> + + * nscd/nscd.conf: Add warning and comment about shared option. + 2019-08-16 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> * nss/nsswitch.conf: Expand comments, and simplify defaults. diff --git a/nscd/nscd.conf b/nscd/nscd.conf index 39b875912d..ec8a8c1622 100644 --- a/nscd/nscd.conf +++ b/nscd/nscd.conf @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ # # An example Name Service Cache config file. This file is needed by nscd. # +# WARNING: Running nscd with a secondary caching service like sssd may lead to +# unexpected behaviour, especially with how long entries are cached. +# # Legal entries are: # # logfile <file> @@ -23,6 +26,9 @@ # check-files <service> <yes|no> # persistent <service> <yes|no> # shared <service> <yes|no> +# 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%'. # max-db-size <service> <number bytes> # auto-propagate <service> <yes|no> #