Re: ls aborts due to free()ing an invalid pointer

2007-05-04 Thread Steven Schlansker
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Steven Schlansker wrote: Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:23:21AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: I'm having a rather strange error while trying to ls a large directory. The setup is as follows: /home is nfs-mounted from a BSD box nsswitch is set to use

Re: ls aborts due to free()ing an invalid pointer

2007-05-04 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
> > > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:23:21AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: > > > > I'm having a rather strange error while trying to ls a large > > > > directory. The setup is as follows: > > > > > > > > /home is nfs-mounted from a BSD box > > > > nsswitch is set to use LDAP for passwd, shadow, and g

Re: ls aborts due to free()ing an invalid pointer

2007-05-03 Thread Steven Schlansker
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: [snip] I did some more narrowing down. The problem was almost certainly with LDAP. Our LDAP server was heavily overloaded (19! Never seen a 15-minute load average that high before...) because we had an index on the wrong key (uid instead of uidNumber, and all

Re: ls aborts due to free()ing an invalid pointer

2007-05-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:55:49AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: > Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > >On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:23:21AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: > >>I'm having a rather strange error while trying to ls a large directory. > >>The setup is as follows: > >> > >>/home is nfs-mounte

Re: ls aborts due to free()ing an invalid pointer

2007-05-03 Thread Steven Schlansker
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:23:21AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: Hello everyone, I'm having a rather strange error while trying to ls a large directory. The setup is as follows: /home is nfs-mounted from a BSD box nsswitch is set to use LDAP for passwd, shadow, a

Re: ls aborts due to free()ing an invalid pointer

2007-05-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:23:21AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: > Hello everyone, > I'm having a rather strange error while trying to ls a large directory. > The setup is as follows: > > /home is nfs-mounted from a BSD box > nsswitch is set to use LDAP for passwd, shadow, and group info > nsc

ls aborts due to free()ing an invalid pointer

2007-05-02 Thread Steven Schlansker
Hello everyone, I'm having a rather strange error while trying to ls a large directory. The setup is as follows: /home is nfs-mounted from a BSD box nsswitch is set to use LDAP for passwd, shadow, and group info nscd is running to cache the responses from LDAP I try to run ls -l /home, and ge