Darwin DirectoryServices (warnnings)

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Fri Oct 12 18:07:20 CEST 2007


Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
> Hi,
> Running radiusd 2.0pre2 (cvs head)
> 
> Just checked the system logs on one of our radius servers, and i'm
> seeing some strange error messages from directory services.
> 
> Oct 12 12:02:50 wolverine DirectoryService[54]: Potential VM growth in
> DirectoryService since client PID: 9179, has 675 open references when
> the warning limit is 500.

  Hmm... the only OpenDirectory code in the server is in rlm_mschap.  If
you set "use_open_directory = no" in the rlm_mschap configuration, this
issue *should* go away.

  Unless, of course, you're actually using OpenDirectory.  In which
case, the bug would need fixing.

> Could this explain the possible memory leak in radiusd, that only seems
> to appear on Darwin ?

  Yup.

  Alan DeKok.



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