Well, I can't say if it is a memory leak or not as this is the first time I am 
seeing this. I will monitor cf-serverd to see if the memory increases over 
time. Restarting the server might indeed work, there have been some machines 
that I have restarted before the month and they are still going fine.

On Feb 12, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Mark Burgess wrote:

> 
> Matt, are you saying there is a memory leak, or that there is some weird 
> memory
> resource allocation on AIX? Could you work around by restarting the server 
> once a week?
> 
> Matt Richards wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> cf-serverd core dumped on all my AIX servers after about a month of
>> running. After looking at the core dump, it seems it is a rather common
>> issue. cf-serverd over time seems to accumulate too much data to be held
>> in a single memory segment.  Recompiling with the compiler flag
>> "-bmaxdata:0x80000000" should do the trick. If you don't want to
>> recompile, you can relink it with "ldedit -bmaxdata:0x80000000 cf-serverd"
>> 
>> I will let you know in another month if it was successful. 
>> 
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