How many ipa-otpd processes are expected?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • At one of our IPA servers, we have currently 31 sessions like:

    root     54540     1  0 Apr01 ?        00:00:01 /usr/libexec/ipa/ipa-otpd ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fslapd-EXAMPLE.socket
root     56731     1  0 Mar28 ?        00:00:02 /usr/libexec/ipa/ipa-otpd ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fslapd-EXAMPLE.socket
root     62703     1  0 Apr09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/ipa/ipa-otpd ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fslapd-EXAMPLE.socket
root     62909     1  0 Mar27 ?        00:00:02 /usr/libexec/ipa/ipa-otpd ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fslapd-EXAMPLE.socket
root     63342     1  0 08:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/ipa/ipa-otpd ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fslapd-EXAMPLE.socket
root     63453     1  0 Mar27 ?        00:00:02 /usr/libexec/ipa/ipa-otpd ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fslapd-EXAMPLE.socket

  • This number seems to grow. And some are dated since last reboot

  • Is this normal behaviour?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • Red Hat Identity Management

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