saslauthd memory leak
Issue
- We are facing the saslauthd meamory leak issue on a mail server. below are the details
Apr 15 02:34:41 HOSTNAME saslauthd[14544]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=960241] [service=imap] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error] Apr 15 02:35:18 HOSTNAME saslauthd[15503]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=960241] [service=imap] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error] - saslauthd memory consumption on the server:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 13463 open-xch 14 -1 8892m 6.6g 4076 S 8.0 41.9 5156:03 java 8744 root 15 0 3124m 407m 1728 S 0.0 2.5 42:49.87 saslauthd 8720 root 15 0 3111m 407m 1740 S 0.0 2.5 44:36.95 saslauthd 8748 root 15 0 3110m 405m 1728 S 0.0 2.5 43:24.10 saslauthd 8746 root 15 0 3115m 405m 1728 S 0.0 2.5 43:42.92 saslauthd 8749 root 15 0 3087m 401m 1728 S 0.0 2.5 43:19.59 saslauthd
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-2.el5 or older
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