UsePrivilegeSeparation: "fatal: xrealloc: out of memory"

[Darren Tucker]

"Jason R. Mastaler" wrote:
> Jun 26 20:15:04 sclp3 sshd[6433]: Accepted password for jason from 128.165.148.66 port 41871 ssh2
> Jun 26 20:15:12 sclp3 jason[110]: sshd[6444]: fatal: xrealloc: out of memory (new_size 5566464 bytes)
> 
> Setting "UsePrivilegeSeparation no" in sshd_config clears up this
> problem, but I'd rather not have to disable this.  Any ideas?

Ulimits? Check with ulimit -a if the data size is <5.5M. If that's it
you'll need to increase it (eg "ulimit -d unlimited") and kill and
restart sshd.

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