Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:04:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Hittinger <bugs@ns1.win.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: re: ANNEX'es erpcd: WEIRD behavior Message-ID: <199510111504.LAA02775@ns1.win.net>
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> From: Rashid Karimov <rashid@rk.ios.com> > We have a dozen of ANNEX Terminal Servers serving > our customers. The beast authentificates thru "erpcd" > daemon via some rather proprietory protocol. > Works fine on Sun Sparcs ( 2,10), but the version I > compiled for FreeBSD moves the load aver. of the PC > it runs on up to the level of 70-100.(P90/SCSI) > It does authentificate though - at least first few > minutes, but it literally dies afterwards :( >.. > The password file is about 1 Mb big , there are about 15,000 > accounts in it - in case it will help No problems here with the V8 erpcd (muchly hacked up), I am not running the V9 code. Here are some ideas: ERPCD spawns a lot of children for that kind of config. You should have a seriously pumped up kernel for that. I've got MAXUSERS 256, options "CHILD_MAX=256", options "OPEN_MAX=256", and a bodacious amount of swap space :-). You may want to go above CHILD_MAX 256 if you have a dozen annexes with 64 ports :-) 12*32=384, 12*64=768. Get Hanz and Franz to reconfigure your server for this manly task. I have a big password file also - but make sure you are using getpwnam to get the records out of the 'db'. If you are using the flat text file 'acp_passwd' you will probably need to seek sequential relief. Double check the file locking for the log file. I recall having to adjust the file lock call for the 64 bit lseek offset. Could ERPCD be spinning in a lock-that-always-fails loop? Do the encrypted packets for the annexes happen to go through any routers before they get to your authentication boxes? Many bad things happened here when I ran the encrypted packets through certain cisco boxes :-) Thats all I can think of right now. Regards, Mark Hittinger Internet Manager WinNET Communications, Inc. bugs@win.net
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