Bug 527377

Summary: Using a large number of direct mounts causes autofs to hang
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Ian Kent <ikent>
Component: autofs5Assignee: Ian Kent <ikent>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: yanfu,wang <yanwang>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 4.8CC: fnadge, ikent, jmoyer, yanwang
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: autofs5-5.0.1-0.rc2.110 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Previously, autofs used the select() function to process direct-mount maps and was limited by the file descriptor limit (by default, 1024). This update uses poll() instead of select() and is no longer limited by the available file descriptors.
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Clone Of: 487653 Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-02-16 14:21:28 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 487653    
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Comment 2 yanfu,wang 2010-12-20 07:34:01 UTC
verified by auto-testcase, pls check https://errata.devel.redhat.com/errata/stateview/10200#c37

Comment 3 Florian Nadge 2011-01-03 16:28:43 UTC
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    New Contents:
Previously, autofs used the select() function to process direct-mount maps and was limited by the file descriptor limit (by default, 1024). This update uses poll() instead of select() and is no longer limited by the available file descriptors.

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2011-02-16 14:21:28 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/RHBA-2011-0241.html