Winbind slowing down entire system

Michels, Gustavo [EES/BR] gustavo.michels at emersonenergy.com
Wed Sep 26 06:47:02 GMT 2001


Just a follow up:

Using winbind enum users and groups = no solved the problem. Winbind is
using 0.6% (3 Mb) of system memory for a while now. And that delay while
telnetting in also disappeared.

cheers
Gustavo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald Carter [mailto:gcarter at valinux.com]
> Sent: quarta-feira, 26 de setembro de 2001 10:48
> To: DICKENS,CARY (HP-Loveland,ex2)
> Cc: Michels, Gustavo [EES/BR]; samba at lists.samba.org; tpot at samba.org
> Subject: RE: Winbind slowing down entire system
> 
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> On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, DICKENS,CARY (HP-Loveland,ex2) wrote:
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> > I have had the same trouble.  I traced it to login getting group
> > information.  When trying to find out what groups a user 
> belongs to, login
> > gets a list of _all_ the groups the system is aware of.  On 
> a domain with
> > 12000 users and 14000 groups, it was taking 1 minute or 
> more to come back
> 
> Yup this would be a problem.  winbindd views all domain groups to
> see which ones the user is a member of IIRC.
> 
> Tim, am I wrong?  Need to check the code.  We should probably
> cache domain groups more.  Since a RID cannot be reused under NT
> this is not a problem.  What do you think?
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> cheers, jerry
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