Bug 73157

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Description of problem:
We are running Red Hat 7.3 and we have installed also Novell eDirectory 8.5.

Novell eDirectory purpose is to allow users to log in to the GNU/Linux-system
with same useraccounts and passwords that they log in to the MS/Windows-system.

Novell eDirectory is huge and buggy software, in my opinion, or we just got
wrong default settings. Anyway, this eDirectory product will make considerable
amount of DNS lookups to manage their weird replicas and so on.

These lookups are very slow if nscd-program is not running.  Novell recommends,
if not mandate, to use this program. Unfortunately we have found out that nscd
is very buggy product. It will crash very often. 

In fact in our root's crontab reads:
*/2 * * * * /etc/init.d/nscd stop >/dev/null ; /etc/init.d/nscd start >/dev/null

Otherwise the system will not survive. Running the system without nscd is like
swimming in tar.

This leads to another problem, defunct nscd-processes fills the ps-listing. See
ps-listing
attachments. The running versions of buggy nscd also fills up the
/var/logs/messages file. See
messages-attachment.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Novell eDirectory
2. Have nightmares.

Actual Results:  Terrible system performance, huge logs and lot's of defunct
processes.

Expected Results:  Smooth operation with reasonable system resource consumption.

Additional info:

Feel free to ask, I will provide all information you need. Even remote access to
system might be possible to manage.