[Xymon] Possible Memory Leak (?!) in Version Xymon 4.3.27-1.el6.terabithia

[Peter Welter]

Hi Japheth,

Thanks for your response. I'm looking into this and will be back a.s.a.p.
(a few days or so, since I just restarted Xymon ;-)

Peter

2016-09-20 19:07 GMT+02:00 Japheth Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>:

> On 9/20/2016 8:37 AM, Peter Welter wrote:
>
>> Hi J.C.,
>>
>> First of all: Thanks for your work for Xymon!
>>
>> Second: I have a question about the repository from terabithia. I want to
>> install an Development, Test  Accept, Production environment with the use
>> of this repository. I installed first and are working on the next phase.
>>
>> Over time however, I see that my Xymon-server seems to eat all the memory
>> available and starts swapping until all memory is consumed?!?
>>
>> This is for Development only and there are no really any tests. A very
>> small host.cfg. So, why is over time, Xymon this hungry for memory?
>>
>> Tue Sep 20 17:29:46 CEST 2016 - Memory CRITICAL
>>
>>    Memory                  Used       Total  Percentage
>> green Real/Physical          7737M       7872M 98%
>> yellow Actual/Virtual         7539M       7872M 95%
>> red Swap/Page              3886M       4095M         94%
>>
>> After a Xymon restart, all the swap is freed?
>>
>> I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.8 (Santiago)
>>
>> Any suggestions what to do next? Thanks in advance for any help!
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> I'm not aware of any memory leaks present in 4.3.27 itself that would
> cause growth like that. Can you provide the ps output for the system's
> various xymon tools? Which process seems to be running out of control?
>
> -jc
>
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