Jordan Tardif wrote:

> denyhosts seems to be starting to slow down on all of our servers..
> 
> root     10464 26.6  0.8 13372 9012 ?        Ss   11:00   6:37
> /usr/bin/python2.3 /usr/sbin/denyhosts.py -c /etc/denyhosts.cfg
> 
> 
> it has been running for 6 1/2 minutes using 26-40% cpu the whole time.
> heres an strace (before i installed nscd)..
[snip]
> seems like now that i installed nscd it just keeps looking at nscd over
> and over. any ideas? my auth.log is only 36MB right now.

Several factors, and complementing what Jason said:

1. Do you have HOSTNAME_LOOKUP set in your configuration?

2. How long is your /etc/hosts.deny list?
(roughly one half of `wc -l /etc/hosts.deny`)

3. Do you know that python is a resource hog?  CPU use is very high on all
python programs I use.
-- 
René Berber



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