Re: NetInfo causes slowdown in 10.3.6?

[Bruce Johnson]

On Nov 15, 2004, at 1:28 AM, Kris Tilford wrote:
I took you advice and made them all inactive, but so far no speedup.
If netinfo wasn't activated, then this wouldn't have done anything.
I'm concerned about these netinfo logs because I don't understand what 
these are.
The process ID # most common is the 254 which is the process "lookupd" 
and the logged message:

<Date> <Time> localhost lookupd[254]: NetInfo connection failed for 
server 127.0.0.1/local

would appear to be self-referring like some type of loop? Since 
NetInfo isn't active in Directory Services to begin with, why would I 
get these?
Other process ID's refer to things like: notifyd, ioupsd and other 
things (currently not active) that end in "d" ?
By Unix convention daemons, background control processes, have names 
that end in d.

Since they're unix programs, entering 'man <itemname>' usually gives 
you some information:

lookupd(8)                BSD System Manager's Manual               
lookupd(8)

NAME
     lookupd - directory information and cache daemon
SYNOPSIS
     lookupd
     lookupd -d
     lookupd -D portname
     lookupd -f category key value
     lookupd -q category [[-a key [value ...]] ...]
     lookupd -configuration
     lookupd -flushcache
     lookupd -statistics
DESCRIPTION
     The lookupd daemon acts as an information broker and cache.  It is 
called
     by various routines in the System framework to find information 
about
     user accounts, groups, printers, e-mail aliases and distribution 
lists,
     computer names, Internet addresses, and several other kinds of 
informa-
     tion.

     lookupd keeps a cache of recently requested items to improve 
system per-
     formance.  It also implements a search strategy used to find 
information
     from the many information sources that are potentially available 
to a
     computer.  These include the Domain Name System (DNS), Sun 
Microsystem's
     Network Information Services (NIS),  Apple's NetInfo system, and a 
set of
     files found in the /etc directory.  lookupd also has a channel to 
query
     Directory Services, allowing access to data from LDAP and other 
directory
     systems.

I was able to determine that when a saw I spinning beach ball in 
Safari or Mail, that this same error message as above with the correct 
time stamp for the spinning beach ball was present in the NetInfo log, 
so this error is the spinning beach ball.
They're trying to look up some network resource. The thing keeps asking 
for Netinfo, so something leads me to believe that the system thinks 
that Netinfo is in fact on, regardless of the setting in Directory 
Access.

Next time you have a problem like this, fire up a terminal window and 
do:

sudo lookupd -flushcache
you may be getting a corrupted lookupd cache or something.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of P armacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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