From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 13 9:20:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from troi.csw.net (troi.csw.net [209.136.192.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02A6615029 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:20:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lambert@cswnet.com) Received: from ssaos2.csw.net (ssaos2.csw.net [209.136.201.13]) by troi.csw.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA98264 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:17:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lambert@cswnet.com) Message-Id: <199908131617.LAA98264@troi.csw.net> From: lambert@cswnet.com Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:06:09 -0500 To: FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.org Subject: pwd_mkdb and system processes X-Mailer: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v1.60 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've been trying to track down a problem on my e-mail server where it stops processing smtp and pop processes for 5 minutes at a time. # wc -l /etc/passwd 14945 /etc/passwd We rebuild this file once per hour to add or remove customers. I finally caught it with a top session running at the time. Inetd was accepting new connections and starting popper but people can't authenticate. Sendmail accepts new connections but they stall until pwd_mkdb goes away. When I try to run a command from the command line, it doesn't execute until pwd_mkdb gets done. The CPU is 97% idle during this time. Does all file access in the system stop while pwd_mkdb runs? 3.2-STABLE June 30ish. SMP -- Scott Lambert lambert@cswnet.com Systems and Security Administrator CSW Net, Inc. ================================================================ Written: Friday, August 13, 1999 - 11:06 AM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message