Re: [Beowulf] Poll - Directory implementation

2018-10-26 Thread Skylar Thompson
Good to know - we're still nslcd users so have yet to run into that, though are about to make the leap to CentOS 7 where I think we will have to use it. On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 03:13:47AM +0100, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote: >Skylar, I believe that nscd does not work well with sssd and I disa

Re: [Beowulf] Poll - Directory implementation

2018-10-26 Thread John Hearns via Beowulf
Skylar, I believe that nscd does not work well with sssd and I disabled it. See https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/deployment_guide/usingnscd-sssd I believe that nscd is the work of Auld Nick himself and causes more problems than it is worth on HPC nodes.

Re: [Beowulf] Poll - Directory implementation

2018-10-26 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 08:44:28PM +, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Our LDAP is very small, compared to the sorts of things some people run. > > We added indexes today on uid, uidNumber, and gidNumber and the problem went > away. Didn’t try it earlier as it had virtually no impact on our testing

Re: [Beowulf] Poll - Directory implementation

2018-10-26 Thread Ryan Novosielski
> On Oct 24, 2018, at 2:05 PM, Michael Di Domenico > wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 1:51 PM Ryan Novosielski wrote: >> On 10/24/2018 01:44 PM, Michael Di Domenico wrote: >>> i don't want to diverge this thread from the OP, but how fast does >>> ldap really need to be? i have ~700 machines