UsePrivilegeSeparation: "fatal: xrealloc: out of memory"

Ben Lindstrom mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org
Fri Jun 28 04:24:42 EST 2002


On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Jason R.Mastaler wrote:

> Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> writes:
>
> > Protocol 1 works with compression, Protocol 2 works without, but if
> > you use -2 -C, sshd will grow to about 25 Mbyte of memory, and then
> > ulimit will strike.
>
> This seems unrelated though, because as I mentioned in my first
> message, I only have this problem when UsePrivilegeSeparation is
> enabled.  With "UsePrivilegeSeparation no", ``-2 -C'' works fine.
>

Do something for me..

 do Privsep w/out -C .. do you have this issue?

One needs to narrow down where the issue is occuring.. And my first guess
it the mmap() is going awry.





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