Environment
Novell Open Enterprise Server 11 (OES11)
Domain Services for Windows
DSfW
Situation
xadsd memory leak
RES memory for xadsd shows it is raised from 12m to 210 m.
A memory leak of almost 200mb is reported for xadsd
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
22430 root 20 0 671m 210m 4404 S 8 2.8 191:07.80 xadsd
cat /proc/`pidof xadsd`/status | grep -i Threads
shows the number of threads are more than 8k and does not drop.
Resolution
Resolved in July 2013 Maintenance Patch
After applying the fix
cat /proc/`pidof xadsd`/status | grep -i Threads
shows the number of threads are more than 8k when processing authentications and activity. The threads clear when the processing is done.