Bug 672571 - the ntpd daemon crash
Summary: the ntpd daemon crash
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 575874
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ntp
Version: 5.6
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Miroslav Lichvar
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-01-25 16:05 UTC by Eric Doutreleau
Modified: 2011-01-25 16:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-01-25 16:20:20 UTC
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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 ***
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