Re: runaway odproxyd on Lion server on Xserve?

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Bill Janssen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perhaps someone on this list can help me...
>
> I've got an Xserve (8GB of RAM, 3TB of hardware RAIDed disk) that I've
> upgraded to the latest Lion server.  It locks up every couple of days;
> the console won't respond, and I can't ssh into it.  The only way to get
> it back is to power-cycle it.  Previously it was working fine (on
> Leopard).
>
> The culprit seems to be a runaway odproxyd service that's eating up all
> the usable memory.  The console is showing a panel that says it can't
> start a new process because there's not enough memory.  The system log
> shows zillions of messages from odproxyd about not being able to do
> something because there are too many open files.
>
> Anyone have a clue about what causes this, and how I can fix it?

There doesn't seem to be a current solution for this, however at
<https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3706513?tstart=60> are details
on how to get those log entries ignored so the server doesn't spend
all its energy managing those recurring entries. That seemed to help
others experiencing this issue.



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Best Regards,

John Musbach