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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!caleb!chet From: chet@caleb.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: identd causing load problems Date: 6 Dec 1995 15:55:35 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Lines: 52 Message-ID: <4a4edn$cls@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <4a1tcb$mjs@opal.southwind.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: caleb.ins.cwru.edu >We're running BSD/OS 2.0.1 with the bundled identd. Periodically an >identd process doesn't die. This usually results in some more of them >not dying shortly thereafter, which puts a very high load on the system. >When we were running BSDI 1.1 I installed identd for a short time and >had the same problem. Currently I have killer process snuffing these >things every five minutes. Is there a patch available for this? The BSD/OS identd works way too hard. Here are some diffs to kernel.c I sent to BSDI support. (I use pidentd-2.5 rather then the version 2.4 shipped with BSD/OS, hence the difference in filenames.) *** kernel/bsdi2.c Tue Oct 17 15:56:59 1995 --- /usr/src/libexec/identd/kernel.c Fri Feb 3 01:45:59 1995 *************** *** 121,133 **** char *what; { ! int e; ! if ((e = kvm_read(kd, addr, buf, len)) < len) { ! if (syslog_flag && e < 0) ! { ! char *z = kvm_geterr(kd); ! syslog(LOG_ERR, "getbuf: kvm_read(%08x, %d) - %s : %m (%s)", ! addr, len, what, z); ! } return 0; --- 121,129 ---- char *what; { ! if (kvm_read(kd, addr, buf, len) < 0) { ! if (syslog_flag) ! syslog(LOG_ERR, "getbuf: kvm_read(%08x, %d) - %s : %m", ! addr, len, what); return 0; *************** *** 238,244 **** for(j = 0; j < pfd.fd_nfiles; j ++) { - if (ofiles[j] == 0) - continue; - if(!getbuf(ofiles[j], &ofile, sizeof(struct file), "ofile")) { --- 231,234 ---- -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu