Bug 10015

Summary: ypserv memory leak?
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Juergen Heerdegen <juergen>
Component: ypservAssignee: Cristian Gafton <gafton>
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Description Juergen Heerdegen 2000-03-06 20:35:13 UTC 
After start up, ypserv seems to consume memory in ever increasing amounts.
After a while, it will take up so much memory that it and other services
will begin dying off.

From top:

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
14119 root      11   0 17308  16M   496 S       0 10.3 13.5  43:59 ypserv

I'm told that ypserv should typically not take up more than about 2-3MB of
memory.
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-03-07 13:06:59 UTC 
Make sure that you the latest glibc, as there was memory leak in gethostbyname()
IIRC.