Shibboleth Developers

[giacomo tenaglia <>]

Hi,
I've experienced some shibd crashes (2.0, RHES4, 32bits), all of them
looks like this:

2008-08-15 00:48:41 ERROR XMLTooling.Threads : pthread_create error (12): 
Cannot allocate memory
2008-08-15 00:48:41 CRIT Shibboleth.Listener : error starting new server 
thread to service incoming request
2008-08-15 00:48:41 INFO Shibboleth.Listener : listener service shutting down

and then shibd is shut down and I have to restart it by hand. Sometimes
the process doesn't exit and I have to SIGKILL it.

I have a couple of questions:
- have you ever heard of similar problems? I'm using an ODBC SS and
  everything has worked fine from april to mid-august. Nothing was
  touched in the configuration. I remember of André Cruz reporting some
  memory investigations.
- don't you think it's better not to shutdown completely shibd in that
  case? Maybe the catch() on line 244 of SocketListener.cpp should be
  "refined" a bit to just try another time the select() or not to exit
  on memory problems (actually I don't know how this is handled in other
  select()-using daemons).

Thank you,
giacomo

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giacomo tenaglia
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