Bug 974471

Summary: pam_cgroup is slow when cgrules.conf and /etc/passwd are large
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jan Kurik <jkurik>
Component: libcgroupAssignee: Peter Schiffer <pschiffe>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.4CC: abienven, agrimm, jeder, jkurik, jsafrane, jwest, mmahut, pm-eus, pschiffe, rmillner, twiest, varekova, wduffee
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Previously, the pam_cgoup PAM module did not use cache. Consequently, when a system had several thousand users and the cgrules.conf file contained several thousand lines of configuration settings, the login time could take several seconds. This was because the libcgroup code read /etc/passwd once for every line in cgrules.conf, unless the CGFLAG_USECACHE flag was used. With this update, the libcgroup code no longer reads the /etc/passwd file once for every line in cgrules.conf, and the login time is no longer affected in the described scenario.
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Bug Depends On: 972893    
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Description Jan Kurik 2013-06-14 08:54:29 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #972893 and has been proposed
to be backported to 6.4 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 5 Mike Gahagan 2013-06-19 19:08:05 UTC
bug reproduced with libcgroup-0.37-7.1.el6_4 and fix verified with libcgroup-0.37-7.2.el6_4 per reproducer in bz 972893.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2013-06-25 14:07:54 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0975.html