Shibboleth SP 2.1 shibd Shutdowns under hight load

[Cantor, Scott]

On 9/4/12 11:21 AM, "gviczai" <jakabgipsz99 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Experiencing the same problem with version 2.5.
>
>Under heavy load shibd logs:
>
>"2012-09-04 16:34:38 ERROR XMLTooling.Threads : pthread_create error (12):
>Cannot allocate memory"

>more than 10G of system memory is free), than
>watch "pmap 24890 | grep 10240 | wc -l; ls /proc/24890/task | wc -l"
>reports
>increase in threads, and after about 200 thread shibd exits.

Stop using Apache prefork, or alternatively make your stack size something
reasonable. The Linux default is huge.

See 
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPUnixListener
or set it via ulimit.

-- Scott