ns-slapd process on IPA server crashes due to tcmalloc memory management issue on RHEL 7.5
Issue
IPA services stop responding to network requests due to segmentation fault in libtcmalloc:
[root@mo2-tnt-ipa-001 log]# cat messages-20180515 | grep lib
May 14 16:48:23 mo2-tnt-ipa-001 kernel: ns-slapd[10108]: segfault at 0 ip 00007fe9be56329b sp 00007fe9a4025a00 error 4 in libtcmalloc.so.4.4.5[7fe9be53c000+46000]
This bug can also affect other services which use libtcmalloc for memory management.
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5
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