From: Kenn Humborg (kenn at domain bluetree.ie)
Date: Wed 22 Sep 1999 - 12:45:05 IST
># ps avx
> PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND
> 239 ? S 5:59 645 23 11440 1008 3.2 syslogd -m 0 -r
>That's 11MB of data. For a logger daemon? On my RH4.2 box,
>it's only 800k of data.
OK. It's a known bug in glibc. There is a leak in
gethostbyname when it does nisplus lookups.
Solution is to upgrade to RawHide version of glibc.
Workaround is to remove nisplus from hosts line in
/etc/nsswitch.
I'll let y'all know if this works.
Kenn
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