Saslauthd memory leak ?

[Yann Rouillard]

Le vendredi 14 octobre 2005 à 16:05 -0400, Igor Brezac a écrit :
> On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Yann Rouillard wrote:
> 
> >
> >>> Any idea how to solve this problem ?
> >>
> >> Can you provide more info such as saslauthd version, saslauthd startup
> >> options, etc?
> >>
> >
> > saslauthd version 2.1.21
> > launched with option -a pam
> > OS: Solaris 9 release 9/04
> >
> 
> Your pam implementation is most like the reason for leak.  Which pam 
> module do you use?  

other   auth requisite          pam_authtok_get.so.1
other   auth required           pam_dhkeys.so.1
other   auth required           pam_unix_auth.so.1

other   account requisite       pam_roles.so.1
other   account required        pam_projects.so.1
other   account required        pam_unix_account.so.1

I will check if some patchs are available from Sun for this problem.

Why are you sure the problem comes from pam ? This memory leak problem
never showed up in other configuration ?

> You can use saslauthd -n0, but this performs poorly 
> because saslauthd has to spawn a new process for each authentication.

Thanks for the idea, I will try anyway if the performance impact is
acceptable.

Cheers,

Yann