Hello.

I've got a NetBSD-1.3.1/i386 system which is acting as a YP slave.
The master is a Sun Sparc system.  Most of the clients are HP 
workstations.

Here's the current `top` display:

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE WAIT     TIME    CPU COMMAND
  12648 root      53    0 1160K  228K run   -      164:17 32.13% ypserv.debug
  12929 root      38    0 1104K  216K run   -       94:30 14.06% ypserv.debug
  12533 root      37    0 1160K  228K run   -       21:30 12.74% ypserv.debug
  24573 root       2    0 1160K  216K sleep netio   14:44 10.30% ypserv.debug
  14028 root       2    0 1160K 1268K sleep select  35:40  4.20% ypserv.debug
  21181 root       2    0 1160K  224K sleep netio    5:56  1.61% ypserv.debug
  25281 root       2    0 1160K  228K sleep netio    1:19  0.68% ypserv.debug

This "ypserv.debug" is the regular ypserv compiled with "-g".

I have checked the ypserv that comes with 1.3.2 and -current, and there
do not seem to have been any changes except to the SCCS IDs.

It seems that what is happening is that ypserv receives a request and then
forks and the child is responsible for sending the reply.  Using ktrace,
it seems that ypserv is repeatedly dumping the group file, over and over
again.  In all cases that I've investigated so far, ypserv is talking to
a forked copy of `cron` running on an HP workstation.

Has anyone seen this behavior before?  Are there any changes to ypserv
since 1.3.1?  Can anyone help me debug the problem?

Please email me directly at:  ckane (at) best (dot) com,
I am not on this email list.

Thanks...
-- Chuck