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Re: tcmalloc



--On Monday, November 23, 2009 9:36 AM -0800 Bill MacAllister <whm@stanford.edu> wrote:

The only authenticated binds to our directory service that we support
are GSSAPI binds.  On Linux, Cyrus SASL/malloc leak memory bad enough
that without either hoard or tcmalloc OpenLDAP is unusable.

This has nothing to do specifically with Cyrus SASL/GSSAPI, and everything to do with how glibc mallocs memory. I can make any linux system fairly unusable running OpenLDAP with a good sized database and a lot of read activity. Including Stanford's database. ;)

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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