Bug 672571

Summary:	the ntpd daemon crash
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Eric Doutreleau <edoutreleau>
Component:	ntp	Assignee:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Version:	5.6
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Description Eric Doutreleau 2011-01-25 16:05:29 UTC

Description of problem:
the ntp daemon crash regularly

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.2.2p1

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start ntpd
2. wait for several hours
3. the ntpd daemon crash
  
Actual results:
it crash

Expected results:
it should not crash as it s our principal ntp server

Additional info:
in the messages log file i got the following messages:

ntpd.log:25 Jan 14:37:02 ntpd[22540]: Exiting: No more memory!

there s a lot of unused swap space in the machine
and the memory is filled with disk page block
then there s a lot of free mamoty

Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2011-01-25 16:20:20 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 575874 ***