Re: [Fwd: constant lookups causing a lot of load]

[Adam Williams <adam@morrison-ind.com>]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: constant lookups causing a lot of load
> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:34:14 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jeremy Hansen <jeremy@methanesea.com>
> To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> I'm running a fairly busy webserver that's authenticating over ldap to
> another server.  I'm getting constant lookups on the 'nobody' group that
> the webserver is running as and I'm not sure why nscd isn't caching it or
> why it's even happening.
> Any suggestions?  It's causing a fair amount of load.

Have you tried bouncing NSCD?  Some versions were a bit buggy.

What does nscd --statistic look like?  Can you increase the cache size
perhaps?