Comment 9 for bug 1305102

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote : Re: [Bug 1305102] Re: celeryd 100% cpu when large dhcpd lease file

On 01/05/14 02:13, Raphaël Badin wrote:
> Btw, if you have a look at the dhcpd.leases file posted on a related bug
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1153077/+attachment/3689992/+files/dhcpd.leases.gz),
> you'll see that, although the file weights 28M, there are only 48
> different IP<->MAC mappings in it. i.e. a *lot* of repetitions.
>

Apparently DHCPD re-writes the leases file every hour and that's a
compiled-in default.

I guess they didn't expect external code to be scanning it!