Virtual Memory Consumption of Cyrus IMAPd

[Mohamed Magdi Abbas]

Rob Siemborski wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Mohamed Magdi Abbas wrote:
> 
>> Rob Siemborski wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Andrew Brink wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have also seen this sasauthd memory leak on a Debian box.  A 
>>>> simple restart always fixes the problem for me too.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> When we get reports like this it inevitably turns out to be the PAM 
>>> module leaking memory, not saslauthd itself.
>>
>>
>> But then why would a restart of saslauthd itself fix things, i.e. 
>> release the swap space (it or someother piece down the line) used up?
> 
> 
> PAM modules are used as libraries by the running process. If they leak 
> memory as part of the saslauthd process, then killing saslauthd will 
> release the leaked memory.

Ah, that's right... thanks for the reminder...


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