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- From: rodean@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bruce Rodean)
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:37:46 GMT
- Subject: Re: HP login very slow
- Message-ID: <7371189@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Ft. Collins, CO.
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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- References: <1992Jul28.203022.16348@ctp.com>
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- In article <1992Jul29.081204.6487@cv.ruu.nl> fred@cv.ruu.nl (Fred Appelman) writes:
- >In <1992Jul28.203022.16348@ctp.com> jmay@ctp.com (Jason May) writes:
- >>What else does login(1) do that could be slow? We're running both NFS
- >>and NIS. CPU and network loads aren't high. Once the login does complete,
- >>there are never any performance problems.
- >
- >HP, checks quotas during login. Perhaps that is your problem.
-
- It is probably disk quota checking. If an NFS server is down during a
- login attempt, the login (actually quota) will hang until it times out.
- You can check this by running a 'ps -ef' while a login is hanging from
- another session. If you see a quota command being run for the user
- trying to log in, then that confirms it.
-
- You either need to get that NFS server back up and running or disable
- disk quota checking on the local system. As I pointed out in another
- string, this can be done by either:
-
- chmod 444 /usr/bin/quota # or
- mv /usr/bin/quota /usr/bin/quota.save # or
- rm /usr/bin/quota
-
- depending upon how drastic a measure you want to take.
-
- Bruce Rodean
- rodean@fc.hp.com
-
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