Virtual Memory Consumption of Cyrus IMAPd

Lenny rahl at mindcryme.com
Mon Jul 19 17:48:57 EDT 2004


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
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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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