Bug#574990: nscd crashes after moderate use

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:30:51AM +0200, Lukas Kolbe wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> > I'm currently setting up a similar test environment with Lenny
> > and Squeeze to see if I can reproduce it.
> > 
> > nscd has configuration options to force a continuous restart, see
> > the options "paranoia" and "restart-interval" in nscd.conf. Does
> > nscd keep up if you set it to something like 600?
> > 
> > You should probably use this in conjunction with the "persistent"
> > settings.
> 
> Hm, even after setting restart-interval to 600 nscd keeps crashing:
> 
> Jul 29 10:06:42 niska kernel: [29035521.984129] nscd[24114]: segfault at 10 ip 00007fa46659b685 sp 00007fffec52f6b0 error 6 in nscd[7fa466595000+1c000]

Could you please run an additional test: If you set the cache-size
to a really small value, does is crash faster?

I have the suspicion that the crash might occur the first time a
cache slot is replaced.

Cheers,
        Moritz