Anyone else experiencing problems with PassWordService in Tiger ?

[jon]

Sorry, can’t find an exact match on this subject by searching, hence new thread.

Anyone else experiencing problems with PassWordService in Tiger ?
We have 10.4.7 Server on our G5 Xserve.

A problem that began in late 10.3.9 appears to have followed us all the way to 10.4.7, but at least now I know something of what’s going on.

Symptoms:

NFS slows down to a crawl.
Server slows down to a crawl and top doesn’t show anything.
Suddenly SSH authentication stops working, and even login at the Server GUI (eg. we have a secure screen saver) stops working.

Solutions:
1. Drastic – if you can’t get in even after a few minutes – Reboot!
2. Gentler – after a few minutes a root or admin login to the server via ssh should work, because the slowdown comes in bursts which get progressively worse. Then killall -9 PasswordService kills the errant process, which then respawns. Usually that’s problem solved, if not see 1.

This is annoying.
It should have been fixed by now.

Anybody know anything further about this ?

Jon

[Ross]

The only time I have seen something like this is when a server was being used as a PDC and the master had home directories stored on it. Is this your case? How many simultaneous connections (windows/afp)?

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