NIS?

[Gary Stiehr]

Hi,
    While I do not have any numbers to give you, I can offer you my 
experience on our cluster.  We have used NIS on a 10-node/20-processor 
cluster for a while and have always been able to obtain very good 
performance on our programs.  That is, the overhead of using NIS seems 
trivial on our cluster.  I think that the administrative overhead of 
properly setting up an LDAP directory would be enough to avoid it 
altogether and I can't imagine that the performance is good relative to 
NIS or distributing the password file.  Well, I hope that these comments 
help even though they are not quantitative.

-- 
Gary Stiehr
gary at umsl.edu


Bob Campbell wrote:

> NIS or LDAP or normal passwd files or something else?
> 
> does the ease of maintain the NIS passwd's make it worth
> the performance hit? how large is the performance hit?
> 
> this will be for a medium sized cluster with just a few
> users.
> 
> 
> thanks.
> 
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