Virtual Memory Consumption of Cyrus IMAPd

[Lenny]

Fedora Core 1's saslauthd doesn't seem to like me setting the mech to 
ldap. This
works great on Core 2, but I'm not in a postition to migrate all the cyrus
servers to Fedora Core 2 as of yet. So this is a temporary problem for me :)

Lenny
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Quoting Igor Brezac <igor at ipass.net>:

> pam is known to leak memory on some OSs.  This is really not saslauthd
> problem.  Have you tried to use saslauthd built-in ldap mech?
>
> -Igor
>
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Lenny wrote:
>
>> Using the pam mech which in turn is authing against an openldap server.
>>
>> I've tried the -n0 flag that was just mentioned in hopes this solves
>> the problem
>> :)
>>
>> Lenny
>> --
>>
>> "Wisdom is to a man an infinite Treasure" - Anonymous"
>>
>>
>> Quoting Igor Brezac <igor at ipass.net>:
>>
>> > What saslauthd authentication mechanism are you using?
>> >
>> > -Igor
>> >
>> > On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Lenny wrote:
>> >
>> >> Not sure about RHEL, but on Fedora Core 1 the saslauthd process 
>> eats tons of
>> >> swap until eventually there's no memory left. Great fun! This of
>> >> course stops
>> >> cyrus from being able to process imap and pop logins (if you're using
>> >> saslauthd
>> >> for authentication). A simple restart usually fixes this 
>> particular problem.
>> >>
>> >> This may or may not be related to what you're seeing, but I figured
>> >> I'd throw
>> >> this out there.
>> >>
>> >> Lenny
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >> "Wisdom is to a man an infinite Treasure" - Anonymous"
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Quoting Mohamed Magdi Abbas <abbasmm at longwood.edu>:
>> >>
>> >> > I'm running cyrus impad(v 2.2.6), used to run 2.1.16, on RHEL 3.0 and
>> >> > noticed that the amount of swap space free is decreasing. When I was
>> >> > running v2.1.16, the swap free would decrease until the kernel oom(out
>> >> > of memory) killer would activate and start killing processes which
>> >> > essentially grinds the system to a halt. I doubt that this is normal.
>> >> > Could this point to a memory leak in cyrus. Just for note, I have not
>> >> > yet experienced this with the latest version, but the swap free is
>> >> > decreasing.
>> >> >
>> >> > By the way I'm using simons RPMS from invoca.ch. Could someone 
>> shed some
>> >> > light on this. Anything will help...
>> >> >
>> >> > Mohamed Magdi Abbas
>> >> > Systems Engineer
>> >> > Longwood University
>> >> > abbasmm at longwood.edu
>> >> >
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>> > --
>> > Igor
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Igor


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