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Re: memory leak, or 'normal' behaviour?
--On Monday, March 15, 2004 5:30 PM +0100 Pierangelo Masarati
<ando@sys-net.it> wrote:
Sure. I didn't expect it to be so bad... anyway apparently
there are other people reporting at least leaks. I wouldn't
bother too much about it, except that I see people restarting
the server overnight or even closer.
Ando,
I've always seen growth in slapd. Part of the reason one can see growth is
the other libraries that do not belong to OpenLDAP that get loaded
(cyrus-sasl, heimdal, MIT kerb, BDB, OpenSSL, etc). If any of those
libraries have their own memory leaks, slapd will "inherit" them. Howard
Chu spent a bit of time working on this for Stanford back in 2002 when we
hired Symas, and cleaned up a large number of leaks in other vendors code.
The question is, of course, if those vendors have introduced more leaks
since that time.
On my production systems which are heavily used:
slapd resident size is: 1,428 MB
slapd virtual size is : 2,185 MB
We put a threshold of 2 GB resident and 3 GB virtual as a point in which to
issue a warning to us.
On my test systems, which are virtually unused:
slapd resident size is: 138 MB
slapd virtual size is : 2079 MB
IIRC, another part of why slapd "grows" is the various cache's used by
slapd (ACL, idl, etc). As a system is more vigorously used, the more the
cache's can (and will) be used, which means that slapd will grow to
accommodate that growth.
Note that I never hit my thresholds, and thus never receive warnings. I
think it is important to note that a slapd process that is used can grow to
approximately 10 times the size of an unused process, so one should give
allowance for this type of thing.
--Quanah
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Stanford University
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