[Bug 301772] [NEW] Long reboot times using autofs5 with ldap

[BrandonS]

Any updates on this?  This behavior is still present in Jaunty.

Thanks.

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Brandon J. Schwartz
IT Engineer, Sr.
brandons at qualcomm.com
x17208


BrandonS wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> Binary package hint: autofs5
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using autofs5-5.0.3-3 on an amd64 distribution of Intrepid.  
> lsb_release -d
> Description:    Ubuntu 8.10
> 
> We use LDAP here to manage automounts and have over 9000 mounts
> presented to the system.
> 
> I noticed once I configure the system to work with our LDAP servers,
> rebooting is very slow, in fact it took over 12 hours for the machine to
> reboot the one time that I left it.
> 
> I did some digging and realized that it's a combination of two things:
> 1) This version of autofs does not clear out the autofs entries in /proc/mounts when it exits.
> 2) /etc/rc6.d/S40umountfs interated over every line in /proc/mounts to umount all remaining filesystems.
> 
> Because our /proc/mounts table is over 9000 lines, and because automount
> doesn't clean out this table on exit, the above script takes forever to
> iterate over these 9000 lines.
> 
> I copied an automount binary from a different linux distro (Gentoo,
> version 5.0.3-r6) and this daemon does clean out /proc/mounts on exit.
> 
> Let me know if you need more info on this.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> ** Affects: autofs5 (Ubuntu)
>      Importance: Undecided
>          Status: New
>

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Long reboot times using autofs5 with ldap
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301772
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