Re: (ITS#7433) OpenLDAP 2.4.32 - possible memory leak at high load

[quanah@zimbra.com]

--On Tuesday, November 06, 2012 5:36 PM +0000 vb4607@att.com wrote:

> Full_Name: Venkatesh Baglodi
> Version:  2.4.32
> OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (139.76.64.65)
>
>
> We have been facing frequent memory utilization issues with OpenLDAP
> 2.4.32 in our production environment (multi-master mode, 6 servers),
> which requires OpenLDAP server instances to be restarted almost every
> week. Utilization starts at a lower percentage to start with (2-3%), but
> then gradually moves up and never comes down. We have been using OpenLDAP
> 2.4.32 with hdb backend (BerkelyDB v5.3.21) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> Server release 5.5 (Tikanga). Are there any known issues with this
> version?

Are you using the default glibc malloc, instead of tcmalloc?  That would be 
a common mistake that results in this sort of behavior.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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