UsePrivilegeSeparation: "fatal: xrealloc: out of memory"

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Fri Jun 28 09:06:33 EST 2002


Gert Doering wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:19:12PM +1000, Darren Tucker wrote:
> > Gert Doering gave an example of sshd using 25MB of memory (!) so you
> > might want try setting "ulimit -d unlimited" anyway.
> 
> This is a kind of a misunderstanding.  I do consider this a BUG - a sshd
> should never grow to a size larger than a few MB.

I did realise that. I only suggested it as a way of isolating the
problem.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.

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