[Freeipa-users] dead in the water IPA server

[Rich Megginson]

On 05/07/2012 02:55 PM, Steven Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes I have a memory leak see attached graphs....
>
> Yes looks like the killer killed slapd.......dont know what caused this yet........if its the "killer" looks like its decided to kill slapd or slapd was going to kill the system anyway so it may have done the right thing.
>
> Looks like I have 3 days between reboots if i dont IPA losses the plot big time....very bad news..........I will I think slow IPA deployment here at this time........this cant be deployed for us as it is, I cant even test as if something doesn't work I don't know if its my configuring error or an inconsistent IPA.
>
> :/
>
> Thanks for this info I will pursue this through RH support for a perm fix, adding more memory doesn't strike me as the solution, 4gb of ram for 3~4 users and about 6 client machines seems a lot.....
Right.  See https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/51 and especially all of 
the comments to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697701

You will need to closely monitor your entry cache usage.

>
> regards
>
> Steven Jones
>
> Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE
>
> Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
>
> 0064 4 463 6272
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Sigbjorn Lie [sigbjorn at nixtra.com]
> Sent: Monday, 7 May 2012 9:45 p.m.
> To: Steven Jones
> Cc: Jan Cholasta; freeipa-users at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] dead in the water IPA server
>
> This sound very much the same as the issue I've been having. Did you check to see if it was the
> directory server that consumed all of your memory too?
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2012-April/msg00139.html
>
>
> Regards,
> Siggi
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 11:32, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> It seems that your system ate all the available memory and the kernel
>> decided to kill a directory server instance to free some. The kernel agent responsible for this is
>> called the out-of-memory killer, you can read more about it and how to configure it not to kill
>> important processes here: http://lwn.net/Articles/317814/
>>
>> On 7.5.2012 02:22, Steven Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Interesting memory message.....as attached....
>>>
>>>
>>> I take it it isnt good?  cant login that is for sure so whatever is behind the web gui is dead
>>> if nothing else...
>>>
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> Steven Jones
>>>
>>>
>>> Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE
>>>
>>>
>>> Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
>>>
>>>
>>> 0064 4 463 6272
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> Jan Cholasta
>>
>>
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