Bug 76431 – nscd crashes system under moderate load

Bug 76431 - nscd crashes system under moderate load

Summary:	nscd crashes system under moderate load

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	nscd (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jakub Jelinek
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Reported:	2002-10-21 14:39 EDT by Need Real Name
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:47 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-10-02 16:37:06 EDT
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Description Need Real Name 2002-10-21 14:39:52 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020916

Description of problem:
nscd leaves too many open file descriptors.  there are plenty of fd's left in
/proc/sys/file-nr, yet the system logs errors to syslog and refuses to allocate
fd's to other processes.

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How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. heavy load (user queries plus rdns queries).
2. nss-mysql module installed for authentication
(http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/nss-mysql).
3. nss-mysql requires 1 fd per auth per user.
	

Additional info:

nscd-2.2.4-30

Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)

all available eratta installed.

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2004-10-02 16:37:06 EDT

nscd changed a lot since then, if you are able to reproduce this
with Fedora Core 3 test2, please reopen.

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