pam is known to leak memory on some OSs. This is really not saslauthd problem. Have you tried to use saslauthd built-in ldap mech?
-Igor On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Lenny wrote: > 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 > -- > > "Wisdom is to a man an infinite Treasure" - Anonymous" > > > Quoting Igor Brezac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> > 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 > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > >> > --- > >> > Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > >> > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > >> > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > >> > >> > >> --- > >> Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > >> Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > >> List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > >> > > > > -- > > Igor > > > -- Igor --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
