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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
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Message-ID: <4a4edn$cls@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu>
References: <4a1tcb$mjs@opal.southwind.net>
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>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 ----
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Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu