On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 15:32 -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> ==> Regarding Re: [autofs] stat of /users/no-such-user takes 15 seconds; Ian
> Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:
>
> raven> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> >> ==> Regarding Re: [autofs] stat of /users/no-such-user takes 15 seconds;
> >> Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:
> >>
> raven> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> >> >> ==> Regarding Re: [autofs] stat of /users/no-such-user takes 15
> >> seconds; Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:
> >> >>
> >>
> raven> Could you review this patch please Jeff.
> >> After reviewing this further, I did find a problem. See below.
>
> raven> All good points and the test is wrong. I'll update the patch and
> raven> post another.
>
> raven> That just leaves the re-read for the other cases which may be
> raven> causing a long delay. I'm not sure this slows the lookup unless
> raven> sending the signal is causing starvation of cpu cycles some
> raven> how. Perhaps the change from cache_add to cache_update will help
> raven> more than I think.
>
> Ian,
>
> The patch I'm attaching is the one against the RHEL autofs package. This
> is what I have come up with, and it is WRONG. =) It causes a regression
> in the case where there are multiple keys of the same name in a map; the
> patched automounter will always use the last key instead of the first.
> Remember dealing with this back in February? Fun.
>
> I'll keep poking at it, I just wanted to make you aware of the problem.
Does this affect the autofs-4.1.3-166 RPMs I'm testing? :)
/Brian/
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