Virtual Memory Consumption of Cyrus IMAPd

[Igor Brezac]

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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