Re: (ITS#5482) AIX 5.2 Logging core_dump Errors

[quanah@zimbra.com]

--On April 21, 2008 7:56:58 PM +0000 rightsidedwn@gmail.com wrote:

> Full_Name: Steven Handy
> Version: 2.3.27
> OS: AIX 5.2
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (63.237.119.62)
>
>
> OpenLDAP had been running fine our AIX box then all of a sudden we are
> starting to get core_dumps in the errpt and we have to restart openldap.
> We turned on the logging for ldap and the errors we are getting are:
>    ch_malloc of 8388608 bytes failed
>    Assertion failed: __EX, file  ch_malloc.c, line 57

ch_malloc means that you ran out of memory, in most cases.  Re-tune your 
server appropriately.  I also advise upgrading, since 2.3.27 is 
particularly old, and IIRC some memory-leak fixes were put into place since 
then.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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