multiple processes

s_linux · 06-22-2010, 09:08 AM

hi all,
when I do

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# ps -ef |grep nds

I see the following result

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root 14647 1 1 Jun17 ? 01:48:34 /opt/novell/eDirectory/sbin/ndsd
root 22845 21675 0 09:05 pts/0 00:00:00 grep nds
root 25504 14647 0 Jun18 ? 00:00:01 /opt/novell/eDirectory/sbin/ndsd

Any ideas on why it is showing multiple ndsd processes.
Thanks

AlucardZero · 06-22-2010, 09:33 AM

ndsd spawns multiple processes/threads. From that output you can see that 25504 is a child of 14647.

s_linux · 06-22-2010, 09:40 AM

Thanks for your reply.

why it is spawning multiple processes/threads? we have bunch of edirectory servers and I see this only on couple of servers.

is it because of some misconfiguration files?

Thanks again.

AlucardZero · 06-22-2010, 09:58 AM

Because it wants to? Where's the problem?

s_linux · 06-22-2010, 10:05 AM

I'm not sure why it wants spawn multiple processes on only server, this server has to be some thing different than others. Not sure may I'm wrong.
I don't see any problems with ndsd, i ran ndscheck and it's good. no ldap/edirectory or any other errors so far.
management little concern about it, need to find why it is doing that.

Thanks

catkin · 06-22-2010, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by s_linux

why it is spawning multiple processes/threads? we have bunch of edirectory servers and I see this only on couple of servers.

The discrepancy may be caused by the number of clients. AFAIK Samba creates a new process for each client, at least that's how I understand this text from the smbd man page: "A session is created whenever a client requests one. Each client gets a copy of the server for each session. This copy then services all connections made by the client during that session. When all connections from its client are closed, the copy of the server for that client terminates". Maybe ndsd has a similar architecture.