Re: About slapd memory leak

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Monday, December 27, 2004 2:31 PM +0900 ZhangPu 
<zhang@fjh.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> To sarah.burke:
> From Openldap mailing list, I searched your mail about memory leak
> problem.
> http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-bugs/200406/msg00120.html
>
> I got same problem. I used version 2.1.19, in a 2 cpus solaris 8
> machine, memory leak occurred. But I can't reappear it on solaris 9
> and one cpu machine. I don't know where the problem is.
>
> How did you solve this problem? Did you find the reason?
>
> To Kurt:
> Kurt said in the response page, "Please try a more recent version, such
> as 2.2.13 or .14.". Would you please tell me why you recommended this?
> Did you find some errors with version 2.1.19 or above about slapd memory
> leak?

2.2.19 fixed several memory leaks.  Prior to that release, I had issues 
with OpenLDAP and memory leaks.  There is also an issue in 2.2.19 and 
earlier releases that can occur (though not often) between the threads.  I 
have a patch on my website for it at:

<http://www.stanford.edu/services/directory>

--Quanah

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