Description of problem: RFE Filed on behalf of Lars R. Damerow @ Pixar We have cases where we need to tell large numbers of machines to reload their maps in a short time. All of these machines are configured to read maps from LDAP, and sudden avalanche of requests makes our LDAP servers bog down and run out of file descriptors. A good number of automount processes then can't connect to LDAP and shut down for a lack of map information. We'd like automount to behave better in this regard. One approach that may work for us would be a configurable number of retry attempts along with a configurable delay between attempts. I've coded a proof-of-concept patch for this and have attached it here; it works well in my small-scale testing. It defaults to no retries, so admins that don't explicitly turn it on won't see any difference, but the others can have a little insurance against disappearing automounters. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): autofs-5.0.5-x
Created attachment 493644 [details] [PATCH] autofs 5.0.5 - add optional nss map read retries
Thanks for the patch. I've had a quick look at it and although I can't say for sure I think I'll need to make some changes, at least to the master map red wait (using a patch I already have for master map read wait). Anyway, bottom line is, the change looks fine and I'll get onto it as soon as I can.
autofs-5.1.4-1.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-21cb07e1d3
autofs-5.1.4-1.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-593cc5120d
autofs-5.1.4-1.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-21cb07e1d3
autofs-5.1.4-1.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-593cc5120d
autofs-5.1.4-4.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-eda74692fc
autofs-5.1.4-4.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-164b3ee23a
autofs-5.1.4-4.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-eda74692fc
autofs-5.1.4-4.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-164b3ee23a
autofs-5.1.4-5.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-eda74692fc
autofs-5.1.4-5.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-164b3ee23a
autofs-5.1.4-5.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-164b3ee23a
autofs-5.1.4-5.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-eda74692fc
autofs-5.1.4-5.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
autofs-5.1.4-5.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.