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Date:      Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:17:03 -0700
From:      "Cassandra P." <cassandra@loop.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Portmapper Problems
Message-ID:  <003201c02653$a52ffae0$3141d3cf@stormlocal>

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Lately I have noticed that portmapper is spawning 100+ processes on several
of my servers.  I've never seen this before and I wasn't aware that
Portmapper even spawned children, until Thursday, when I had trouble with a
mail server.  The children processes dies off after a few seconds, and
others are created.

The versions of FreeBSD on the affected machines are 2.2.8 through 3.5.1.
The services that the computers have in common NFS and NIS.

I haven't been able to determine the cause.  I've disabled NFS on a machine
and restarted it, but the problem remained.  I haven't tried disabling NIS
yet.

Has anyone seen this before, or might know what the problem is?  I thought
that maybe my computers have been broken into, but I can't find any evidence
of it.

Thanks,

Cassandra P.




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