RHEL4 & LDAP is really slow

[Javier Palacios]

> They all authenticate users from OpenLDAP.  One of the machines running
> RHEL 4 responds extremely slow to user logins or anything to do with the
> LDAP.  I checked /var/log/messages and I see a lot of this:
>
> Jan  8 23:21:28 proline sshd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server...
> Jan  8 23:21:28 proline sshd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server...
> Jan  8 23:21:28 proline sshd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server
> (sleeping 4 seconds)...
> Jan  8 23:21:32 proline sshd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server
> (sleeping 8 seconds)...
> Jan  8 23:21:40 proline sshd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server
> (sleeping 16 seconds)...
> [...]
> There is nothing in the logs on the I'm not sure where else to look or
> what to look for.  Any suggestions?

It is probably there, but check that nscd is up & running

Javier Palacios