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Bug#431243: nscd error/warning on "no more memory for database 'hosts'"



tag 431243 + wontfix
thanks

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 01:28:23PM +0100, Ronny Adsetts wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I see this error too:
> 
> nscd: 10645 no more memory for database 'hosts'
> 
> Anything I can do to help debug and find a solution?
> 
> The computer exhibiting the error was running fine with no errors
> doing ldap only. Once I'd moved our mail services on to it (exim4,
> spamassassin, clamav, dovecot, mysql, ldap), I started getting the log
> message. Server is not busy load wise - delivers about 7000 emails a
> day to a mixture of forwards and maildir mail boxes.

  nscd is a sucky cache daemon for hosts. We strongly recommend to
disable the caching for hosts, and to use a proper DNS cache. I can
recommend pdnsd that is very useful in that regard, and supports many
more features than nscd does.

  In lenny, hosts caching is disabled in nscd.

-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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