Subject: Re: v2.2.24 released

[Timo Sirainen]

On 26 Apr 2016, at 21:09, Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
>> - auth: Auth cache is now disabled passwd-file. It was unnecessary and
>>  it broke %variables in extra fields.
> 
> So settings like
> 
> 	auth_cache_size = 65536
> 	auth_cache_ttl = 86400
> 	auth_cache_negative_ttl = 600
> 
> are ignored/useless, and passwd-file auth lookups always results in file read
> operation?

passwd-files are always read fully into memory. The file's timestamp is checked once a second to see if anything has changed and if so the file is reloaded. So basically they're already cached with perfect TTL settings.