On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Lenny wrote: > Ya, I could do that. Would there be a gain for me to compile the latest from > source and using the ldap mech as opposed to the "-n0" flag suggestion > that was > made?
-n0 is very taxing on the OS specially if you have a lot of users. saslauthd/ldap does not leak (so you do not have restart saslauthd every so often) and it is much faster than pam/ldap. -- Igor > > Lenny > -- > > "Wisdom is to a man an infinite Treasure" - Anonymous" > > > Quoting Igor Brezac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Lenny wrote: > > > >> Fedora Core 1's saslauthd doesn't seem to like me setting the mech to > >> ldap. This > >> works great on Core 2, but I'm not in a postition to migrate all the cyrus > >> servers to Fedora Core 2 as of yet. So this is a temporary problem for me :) > > > > Can you build saslauthd from the source... > > > > -Igor > > > >> > >> Lenny > >> -- > >> > >> "Wisdom is to a man an infinite Treasure" - Anonymous" > >> > >> > >> Quoting Igor Brezac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> > 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 > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > > 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
