RE: slapd crash: ch_malloc.c:77: failed assertion `0'

[Erik Persson <erik@roxen.com>]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Dale, Warren wrote:

> Eric,
>
> I posted this on 8th October:
>
> >To all those people who are using Solaris 8 and who are troubled by huge
> >memory usage there is now a solution.
> >
> >The memory leaks are caused by the regcomp() call. Under Solaris 8, if you
> >call regcomp() and it returns successfully it does not free internal data
> >structures (variables sxp and subidx). This is a known bug and is detailed
> >in bugid 4341290 with SUN. To resolve this you need to apply the following
> >patches in order:
> >
> >	111293-04 (libdevinfo patch. Required by 108528)
> >	108528-10 (Latest kernel patch. Revision #7 is required for 108991)
> >	108991-10 (libc.so patch)
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Warren.

It did indeed. Once I applied my recent patch archive on the LDAP server
the problem went away.

/Erik

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