Hi,
I'm having a memory issue with 389 Directory server. The problem "*cannot
allocate memory*" appears very often and don't find the source.
The exactly log is this:
memory allocator - malloc of 4629376 bytes failed; OS error 12 (Cannot
> allocate memory)
> The server has probably allocated all available virtual memory. To solve
> this problem, make more virtual memory available to your server, or reduce
> one or more of the following server configuration settings:
> nsslapd-cachesize (Database Settings - Maximum entries in cache)
> nsslapd-cachememsize (Database Settings - Memory available for cache)
> nsslapd-dbcachesize (LDBM Plug-in Settings - Maximum cache size)
> nsslapd-import-cachesize (LDBM Plug-in Settings - Import cache size).
> Can't recover; calling exit(1).
>
- The server is a CentOS 5.5 32bits with
2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.centos.plusPAE kernel. The server has 12G memory, I know
that a 32bits kernel can't manage 12G but the kelnel is PAE so I can use
about 4G and the server never rise this value of used memory before crash.
5G of swap. 8 processors.
- The directory server is 389-ds-base-1.2.5-1.el5, with 27 different db.
I have about 40k users in the directory. I have been talking in irc channel
with Rich about directory caches and y I have try with this configurations
without a resolution for the problem:
dbcachesize = 2 * (SUM all .db4 size) | each cachememsize = 10M (default) ->
fails
dbcachesize = 10M (default) | db$i cachememsize = 2 * (db$i/id2entry.db4
size) -> fails
dbcachesize = 10M (default) | db$i cachememsize = 4 * (db$i/id2entry.db4
size) -> fails
Te SUM for all .db4 files size is about 800M.
I have monitor the db with *db_stat* comand and I get always a entry ratio
for id2entry db betwen 50 and 60% in all cases. The value for
max-file-descriptors in 389 is 65355. The size of the hugepagesize is 2M.
This is the ulimit -a results:
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 208896
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 64000
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) 1024
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 208896
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited
I have read in Metalink an error for sun one directory server 5.2 that this
problem can be caused because of "multiple memory pool" but I couldn't find
where it is configured (I guess 389 split from sun one in this version). And
I don't know if it is important to my problem.
The OS error 12 is a default message from operating system for memory
allocation and I'm thinking in a linux scheduler problem, but I don't find
nothing.
If somebody have an idea, please tell me...
Regards,
Moses.