Dear folks, after some days of tracking the problem down, I found that disabling sgi_fam on our students' RH 7.3 installations terminated a massive set of LDAP queries that were effectively terminating services from our LDAP/nfs/name/dhcp server by bringing load average up to 7 and beyond.
We are using LDAP authentication for all our laboratory machines, using OpenLDAP 2.0.23 on RH 7.3. There are about 8000 user accounts, and the system has worked for a couple of years. It all works fine until we get requests like this at the rate of up to 345/second: base="uid=020526238,ou=People,dc=tyict,dc=vtc,dc=edu,dc=hk" scope=0 filter="(objectClass=*) (many other user ids in the base for other queries) I have turned the sgi_fam service off on the removable hard disks for that class, but there are many more classes, full and part time. I have searched bugzilla and the redhat list, but there seems to be no one else reporting this. I would be most grateful for any suggestions or ideas on how to resolve this, particularly on our server (rather than modify hundreds of clients). -- Nick Urbanik RHCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Information & Communications Technology Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi) Tel: (852) 2436 8576, (852) 2436 8713 Fax: (852) 2436 8526 PGP: 53 B6 6D 73 52 EE 1F EE EC F8 21 98 45 1C 23 7B ID: 7529555D GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
