>> Details would be welcome. The biggest offender we found was that the >> portmapper interfaces would use reserved ports. That is simply not >> necessary, and those issues have been fixed in autofs and mount.nfs. In >> fact, we've got regression tests that make sure that this is the case. > > since i had my hang last night i have dug back into this. the big culprit > is getgrouplist (or so it seems) that opens the group.byname map with a yp > all call and it does that from a privileged port. watching my mail > server, i see it burn through priv ports at quite a rapid clip (5 per > second or so). i am going to see why it doesn't use the netid map. it > could just be glibc not having that feature.
aha! there is a file /etc/default/nss where you can enable nis to use the netid map. NETID_AUTHORITATIVE=TRUE is the key. and that has made a huge difference on my server. _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
