Gordon Henderson wrote:
>
> Odd question to ask on the SMP list, I know, but I've tried asking on the
> Debian lists with no reply... And as I have a Dual Xeon III machine, I'll
> try asking here...
>
> I'm running Debian 2.1 with kernel 2.2.6 (Using RAID stuff too). And every
> few days ypserv dies. As this machine is the main nis server for our
> network it cuases a few problems... It was rock solid on the system it
> replaced which was a single processor P333 running Debian 1.3.
>
> Anyone seen this, or have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gordon
> Ps. Apart from that, the system has veen very good with 100+ PC's
> accessing it via Samba as well as almost 2 dozen Sparcs via NFS, but that
> has it's own problems that no-one seems to be able to solve.. )-:
>
I can comfirm on that. Last year I have tried to shift YP from SunOS4 to
Linux.
The ypserver crashed every few days without any error-messages in the
logs.
When running in debug mode it produced a logmsg: "GDBM-write-error".
I tried different machines, c-library versions, SMP/non-SMP, but the
problem was always the same. Well, ypserv ran 100% reliable in a little
10-machine Linux-subcluster with
it's own yp-domain. But in a very heterogenous and huge network
(SunOS4/Solaris 2.x/IRIX 5.3,6.x/Linux clients) it gave me lots of
trouble. Soooo ... i did set up a Solaris 2.7 machine as NIS-master (not
NISplus) and other Solaris machines as slaves. No more problems since
then ... I'll go back to Linux once all SUN's are eliminated here ;)
NFS(D): UNFSD with >=4 parallel processes (version beta43) runs very
reliable now (no more rpc.nfsd deaths). I niced the rpc.nfsd's and
rpc.mountd to -1. Knfsd still doesn't work reliable in our heterogenous
network.
Greetings
Oliver
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