Bug 13308

Summary:	nscd freezes when DNS requests start blocking
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	abe
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2	CC:	fweimer
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=58367
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Description abe 2000-07-01 06:09:36 UTC

After X many hours of heavy usage on our main linux server, NSCD freezes
up. As such, anything that uses nsswitch.conf (most everything) refuses to
run. IF you have a root terminal open, you can get the process ID of nscd
by cat'ing /var/run/nscd.pid and then kill -9 nscd's_pid -- otherwise, you
have to restart.

See http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=58367 for a
more detailed report, but please do note, that this happens on RedHat 6.2
(and 6.1 I think) too.

--ai

Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 2000-08-09 02:41:32 UTC

assigned to jakub

Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2004-10-02 18:45:16 UTC

nscd changed a lot since 6.2 times.  If you can reproduce this still
with contemporary releases, please reopen.