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

[Japheth Cleaver]

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