jabberd c2s process causing out of memory errors on satellite

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Issue

Every few days satellite crashes with an out of memory error. The machine has 32GB of memory, and after a few days it's all consumed by the jabberd c2s process.

PID  %MEM VIRT  SWAP  RES CODE DATA  SHR nFLT nDRT S  PR  NI %CPU COMMAND  
3753 47.9 15.2g 142m  15g  156  15g 3080    3    0 R  15   0  4.5 /usr/bin/c2s

Environment

RHN Satellite 5.4.1
RHN Satellite 5.5

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