Bug 501800

Summary: [RHEL4] Nscd consumes many cpu resources ( nearly 100% ) continuously.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Benjamin Kahn <bkahn>
Component: kernelAssignee: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 4.5CC: alanm, cward, dhoward, djuran, drepper, fhirtz, jakub, james-p, jskrabal, k.georgiou, ofourdan, pm-eus, sghosh, sputhenp, syeghiay, tao
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Regression, ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Off-by-one errors in the time normalization code could have caused clock_gettime() to return one billion nanoseconds, rather than adding an extra second. This bug could have caused the name service cache daemon (nscd) to consume excessive CPU resources.
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Last Closed: 2009-06-30 08:06:36 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 496201    
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Description Benjamin Kahn 2009-05-20 18:56:56 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #496201 and has been proposed
to be backported to 4.8 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 4 Vitaly Mayatskikh 2009-05-21 16:42:55 UTC
Committed in 89.0.1.EL

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2009-06-30 08:06:36 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1132.html

Comment 10 Douglas Silas 2011-01-30 23:40:34 UTC
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Off-by-one errors in the time normalization code could have caused clock_gettime() to return one billion nanoseconds, rather than adding an extra second. This bug could have caused the name service cache daemon (nscd) to consume excessive CPU resources.