John Musbach <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks, John.  Where would I find "a log from the process" which is
alluded to in that thread?  I've looked in /var/log/, and
/Library/Logs/, with no visible odproxyd log files.

Bill

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