[Freeipa-users] Process open FD table is full.

Rich Megginson rmeggins at redhat.com
Fri Nov 2 16:43:35 UTC 2012


On 11/02/2012 10:41 AM, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
> On 11/02/12 07:28, Rich Megginson wrote:
>> On 11/02/2012 09:06 AM, Simo Sorce wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 08:38 +0000, Johan Sunnerstig wrote:
>>>> Looks a lot like a problem I have as well.
>>>> Check out the /proc/xxx/fd directory of the dirsrv process for your
>>>> IPA realm, in my case it's full of dead pointers to /var/tmp/ldap_xxx
>>>> where xxx will be the same on one IPA server(I have two in a
>>>> multi-master setup).
>>>> These don't clear out until I restart the dirsrv process, so
>>>> eventually they'll fill up to the FD limit. For now I have a cron job
>>>> performing a staggered IPA restart on the two servers and a case open
>>>> with RH, but I haven't gotten any solution yet.
>>>> This is also RHEL 6.3 by the way, though the problem appeared in 6.2
>>>> for me.
>>> This looks a memory leak in libkrb5 or dirsrv leaving around so krb
>>> context.
>>>
>>> Those files are replay caches.
>>>
>>> Rich, can you investigate the use of libkrb5 in dirsrv ?
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825863
>>> Simo.
>>>
> Oops missed this, though this is a private bug so I will have to take
> y'alls word for it being the thing.
Sorry about that.  It appears to be a problem with either krb5 or 
selinux, and there is a proposed fix for RHEL 6.4
>
> I hate private bugs. I am going to open a RH support case, just in case
> that helps in any way.
Yes, please.
>
> -Erinn
>




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