Virtual Memory Consumption of Cyrus IMAPd

[Lenny]

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
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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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