kadmin heavy load

Benjamin Kaduk kaduk at MIT.EDU
Wed Sep 25 13:42:22 EDT 2013


On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, sergio.conrad at laposte.net wrote:

>> So, with 20 concurrent changes going on at once, you may simply be 
>> overloading the server and getting timeouts on the clients.
> Thanks for your response ...
>
> I find no way to indicate the timeout with kadmin.
> I write a perl script who do

The timeout for kadmin is hardcoded in the source (as the default 
libkadm5clnt_mit timeout).  The comment in the source code says "Default 
timeout can be changed using clnt_control()", but I don't know whether 
that librpc knob is exposed in the perl bindings.

-Ben Kaduk


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