ntpd crashing with the error 'No more memory!' on RHEL5

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Issue

  • ntpd crashing  with the following message :

    Exiting: No more memory! 
    
  • ntpd daemon terminates with "out of memory message"

    Jan 10 13:15:36 server ntpd[1234]: kernel time sync status 0040
    Jan 10 13:15:51 server out of memory [1234]
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 (64 bit)
  • ntp package version prior to ntp-4.2.2p1-15.el5

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