From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 24 11:12:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stevie.loop.com (stevie.loop.com [207.211.60.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1425D37B422 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:12:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stormlocal (p34.hwts21.loop.net [207.211.65.49]) by stevie.loop.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA72008 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:12:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <003201c02653$a52ffae0$3141d3cf@stormlocal> From: "Cassandra P." To: Subject: Portmapper Problems Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:17:03 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lately I have noticed that portmapper is spawning 100+ processes on several of my servers. I've never seen this before and I wasn't aware that Portmapper even spawned children, until Thursday, when I had trouble with a mail server. The children processes dies off after a few seconds, and others are created. The versions of FreeBSD on the affected machines are 2.2.8 through 3.5.1. The services that the computers have in common NFS and NIS. I haven't been able to determine the cause. I've disabled NFS on a machine and restarted it, but the problem remained. I haven't tried disabling NIS yet. Has anyone seen this before, or might know what the problem is? I thought that maybe my computers have been broken into, but I can't find any evidence of it. Thanks, Cassandra P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message