automount process consumes a large amount of memory.
Issue
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We have a system not really doing much of anything in general, but we noticed that its autofs was growing in memory usage over time.
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 11744 0.0 75.3 2557772 1441692 ? Ssl Mar20 16:18 automount --pid-file /var/run/autofs.pid -
When I stopped and started autofs, the memory usage returned to normal (for now).
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- autofs package earlier than autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.186.el5_11.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- autofs package earlier than autofs-5.0.5-109.el6.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- autofs package earlier than autofs-5.0.7-48.el7.
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