nscd stopped responding after LDAP server crash
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glibc (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: nscd
After our LDAP server hung and had to be restarted, nscd on one of our boxes got into a bad state. It had hundreds of threads running, hundreds of connections to its own nscd socket, and kept polling something, but not usefully, and not appearing to make any progress. This causes the host system to be very slow, as many commands require NSS lookups which the system attempts to send to nscd, but nscd never answers them.
root@net-
Description: Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS
Release: 6.06
ii nscd 2.3.6-0ubuntu2 GNU C Library: Name Service Cache Daemon
ii libnss-ldap 238-1.1ubuntu1 NSS module for using LDAP as a naming servic
I did enter nscd as the package originally, I swear