SPARC: Container Manager Agent Module Causes Memory Leak on Solaris 8 (4982743)

When the Container Manager module is loaded, the module refreshes the container table by reading the /etc/project database. On agent hosts that run the Solaris 8 OS, a memory leak occurs because of a bug in the APIs of the libproject library.

Workaround: To resolve the memory leak problem, perform one of the following workarounds:

• For a permanent solution, install the following patches:

  108528-29 108987-13 108993-33 109147-28 111023-03 111111-03 111317-05 112396-02 113648-03 115827-01 116602-01

• To temporarily fix the problem, edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file and remove nis from the project line. The revised project line should resemble the following example:

  project: files