==> Regarding Re: [autofs] stat of /users/no-such-user takes 15 seconds; Ian 
Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:

raven> On Wed, 30 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, 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.

raven> I'll check that when I make the patch but I'm fairly sure that I
raven> changed the cache code to prevent this at some point. If I can
raven> identify that I'll post it and specify it as a pre-patch. I also
raven> seem to remember that LDAP lookups were an issue and I still needed
raven> to deal with that.

Well, ldap maps get tricky, since they don't guarantee the order of the
results.  Aside from that, I'm not sure what you mean.  ;)  Basically, you
really shouldn't have multiple entries with the same key when using ldap.

-Jeff

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