On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:41:04 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: >> 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. > >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 think so. The configuration of a NIS server is a rather trivial thing. I think both my configuration files and my maps are sane. And even if there WAS a problem within the files, ypserv shouldn't run amok, should it? >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. Ok, this is something that I could at least *try*, altho I doubt that it will help.... Let's see, should I find the cause for my problem I will report them here. Of course further suggestions as to what the problem could be are still welcome up to this point. :-) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
