Virtual Memory Consumption of Cyrus IMAPd

[Igor Brezac]

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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