NDSD Process uses more then 2 GB of Memory

  • Document ID:3235488
  • Creation Date:08-Feb-2007
  • Modified Date:27-Apr-2012
    • Micro Focus Products:
      eDirectory
      Open Enterprise Server

Environment

Products
Novell Open Enterprise Server (Linux based)
Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) Support Pack 2 Linux

Configuration Information
NSS Volumes presented via NCP to Clients
NCP Shares presented to Clients via NCP

Situation

Symptons:
NDSD Process uses more then 2 GB of memory.
NDSD Memory grows incrementally until the NDSD Process crashes.
allocateobjectbuffer memory increases in the NDSD heap.
Users can no longer access NSS Volumes via NCP.
NDSD Process cores on low memory condition.
CachedSubDirectory entries keep increasing.

Resolution

This is resolved in novell-ncp-5.0.1-86 and novell-ncpserv-2.0.17 or later.