Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): OS: RHEL4U2 kernel: 2.6.9-55.02.ELsmp nscd: 2.3.4-2.13 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: -> cat messages |grep nscd Sep 2 20:40:31 mdoccn18 nscd: 6657 no more memory for database 'passwd' Sep 3 20:40:32 mdoccn18 nscd: 6657 no more memory for database 'passwd' Sep 4 20:40:33 mdoccn18 nscd: 6657 no more memory for database 'passwd' Sep 5 20:40:23 mdoccn18 nscd: 6657 no more memory for database 'passwd' Sep 6 20:40:24 mdoccn18 nscd: 6657 no more memory for database 'passwd' Expected results: Additional info: -> nscd -g nscd configuration: 0 server debug level 15d 0h 31m 4s server runtime -1 current number of threads 32 maximum number of threads 0 number of times clients had to wait no paranoia mode enabled 3600 restart internal passwd cache: yes cache is enabled yes cache is persistent yes cache is shared 211 suggested size 216064 total data pool size 2304 used data pool size 600 seconds time to live for positive entries 20 seconds time to live for negative entries 1301 cache hits on positive entries 0 cache hits on negative entries 97528 cache misses on positive entries 79 cache misses on negative entries 1% cache hit rate 24 current number of cached values 1913 maximum number of cached values 17 maximum chain length searched 0 number of delays on rdlock 0 number of delays on wrlock 0 memory allocations failed yes check /etc/passwd for changes
Changing bug component to glibc. This bug is about nscd, but there is no nscd component in bugzilla. It appears nscd is being built from the glibc source rpm.#
RHEL4.2 is very old, there have been about 18 important nscd bugfixes since then in RHEL4 updates, several of them dealt with nscd database growing. Please retry with RHEL4.5 or RHEL4.6 beta nscd (2.3.4-2.36 or 2.3.4-2.38).
No reaction in almost a year. Closing as CURRENTRELEASE.