[K12OSN] excessive account enumeration times <- Help!

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Mon Apr 18 19:36:56 UTC 2005


Henry Burroughs wrote:
> I ran a number of updates this morning (both on my K12LTSP box as well
> as my Active Directory System).  I use ldap to retrieve the user account
> information from AD.  Now I'm having problems with "getent passwd"
> taking close to 30 seconds to return... instead of less than a second.
> This is keeping users from functioning properly because user ID lookups
> take 30 seconds.  I had encoutered this problem before when I moved my
> own workstation to a new subnet... and fixed it when I moved the
> workstation back to the current subnet.  I'm going to try to reboot the
> Active Directory system tonight (I haven't been able to since it still
> serves DHCP at the moment as well as the grading system (and grades are
> due tomorrow to be processed, so that's really stressfull too).
>
> Henry
>
>

Make sure that nscd is running:


	/sbin/service nscd restart



Whether or that is the problem, it should help to mask the problem.

-Eric
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