I haven't seen this problem with NIS under debian before (I have set up an NIS server in debian as well as in SunOS 4.1.3). Is there perhaps something wrong with your data? I don't know why so many servers would be spawned. That's really weird so many ypserv's are being started. If you wanted you could run ypserv under strace perhaps to see what it's doing before it forks.
"Ralf G. R. Bergs" wrote: > COme on guys, isn't there anyone who can help me with this? > > I sort of feel like an idiot that I can't setup a simple NIS server... :-( > > ==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== > >From: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Debian GNU/Linux User Mailing List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > >Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:00:07 +0200 > >Subject: ypserv consumes giant amounts of memory??? > > Hi there, > > I'm running "frozen", previously with kernel ver 2.3.99pre-7 and now > 2.4test-1. > > Since I installed a NIS master server a few days ago my system often comes > to a crawl by excessive memory use of the NIS server (ypserv.) > > I can (sort of) reproduce it by issuing "ypwhich -m" from the box itself or > another machine in my LAN which is just a NIS client. Suddenly there are > several copies of ypserv in the process list which consume ridiculous > amounts of memory and cause the machine to start swapping excessively, > bringing it to a crawl. > > Here are two "top" snapshots I was able to create: > > ============= 8x ================= > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 376 root 17 0 9272 4996 132 D 0 9.1 12.9 0:01 ypserv > 377 root 20 0 9280 4936 136 R 0 8.9 12.8 0:01 ypserv > 373 root 13 0 1372 1372 700 R 0 8.8 3.5 0:13 top > 375 root 14 0 9260 4224 132 D 0 8.1 10.9 0:01 ypserv > 380 root 7 0 9324 3256 1072 R 0 7.2 8.4 0:01 ypserv > 379 root 6 0 9296 5420 128 R 0 6.7 14.0 0:01 ypserv > 378 root 5 0 9292 5604 156 R 0 6.6 14.5 0:01 ypserv > 381 root 6 0 548 548 472 D 0 6.5 1.4 0:00 shutdown > 2 root 8 0 0 0 0 SW 0 3.9 0.0 0:02 kswapd > 160 root 1 0 232 160 104 S 0 0.7 0.4 0:00 ypbind > 286 root 0 0 588 572 276 S 0 0.7 1.4 0:00 bash > 355 root 0 0 380 120 76 S 0 0.3 0.3 0:01 sshd > 4 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.1 0.0 0:00 kupdate > 147 root 1 0 9476 3308 3192 S 0 0.1 8.6 0:00 ypserv > 1 root 0 0 100 52 40 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:03 init > 3 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kflushd > ============= 8x ================= > 1:30pm up 9:24, 3 users, load average: 2.57, 1.31, 0.91 > 50 processes: 45 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 2.9% user, 43.9% system, 0.0% nice, 53.0% idle > Mem: 38456K av, 29624K used, 8832K free, 0K shrd, 148K buff > Swap: 131064K av, 14108K used, 116956K free 1880K cached > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 7706 root 14 0 8856 3072 152 D 0 4.8 7.9 0:00 ypserv > 7711 root 13 0 8780 2596 40 R 0 4.4 6.7 0:00 ypserv > 7708 root 11 0 8772 2608 44 D 0 4.3 6.7 0:00 ypserv > 7710 root 12 0 8776 3668 48 R 0 4.3 9.5 0:00 ypserv > 7709 root 11 0 8772 3588 48 R 0 4.2 9.3 0:00 ypserv > 7707 root 16 0 8760 2944 36 R 0 4.1 7.6 0:00 ypserv > 7704 root 12 0 1356 1356 700 R 0 2.4 3.5 0:05 top > 7712 root 18 0 8856 1024 168 D 0 2.4 2.6 0:00 ypserv > 150 root 8 0 8896 1244 280 S 0 1.6 3.2 0:22 ypserv > 2 root 2 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.8 0.0 2:59 kswapd > 83 daemon 1 0 252 232 200 S 0 0.5 0.6 0:10 portmap > 7653 root 1 0 392 160 100 S 0 0.2 0.4 0:02 sshd > 1 root 0 0 100 52 40 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:07 init > 3 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kflushd > 4 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:02 kupdate > 135 root 0 0 228 168 136 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:06 syslogd > 137 root 0 0 660 168 140 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:01 klogd > ============= 8x ================= > > I'm pretty sure my config is ok (I've set up NIS servers before, both under > Linux and under Solaris.) > > Any idea what's going on and how I can debug the scenario? > > Thanks, > > Ralf > > ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== > > -- > Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. > http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ The Choice /V\ > of a GNU /( )\ > Generation ^^-^^ > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
