Policy Server Buffertracing crash
Article ID: 188647
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Products
CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder)
CA Single Sign On Agents (SiteMinder)
CA Single Sign On Federation (SiteMinder)
CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder)
SITEMINDER
Issue/Introduction
When running a Policy Server, this one might becomes unresponsive when
the Profiler gets activated with all components and all data.
Buffertracing registry has been configured the sm.registry.
Environment
Policy Server 12.8SP2 on RedHat 6
Cause
From pstack, we see 93 % of the threads are waiting for a lock or a
condition.
We see on pstack the following function in execution :
accept () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
recv () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
CSmFileOutput::Log(CSmErrLogMessage&) () from /opt/CA/siteminder/lib/libsmerrlog.so
open64 () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
pause () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
pkgapp.backtrace-1
79 threads in that state :
in __lll_lock_wait () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
39 threads in that state :
in pthread_cond[email protected]@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
31 threads in that state :
[email protected]@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
6 threads in that state :
nanosleep () from /lib64/libc.so.6
1 thread in that state :
accept () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
1 thread in that state :
recv () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
1 thread in that state :
CSmFileOutput::Log(CSmErrLogMessage&) () from /opt/CA/siteminder/lib/libsmerrlog.so
1 thread in that state :
open64 () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
1 thread in that state :
pause () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
pkgapp.backtrace-2
97 threads in that state :
[email protected]@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
31 threads in that state :
[email protected]@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
21 threads in that state :
__lll_lock_wait () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
6 threads in that state :
nanosleep () from /lib64/libc.so.6
1 thread in that state :
CSmFileOutput::Log(CSmErrLogMessage&) () from /opt/CA/siteminder/lib/libsmerrlog.so
1 thread in that state :
accept () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
1 thread in that state :
recv () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
1 thread in that state :
open64 () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
1 thread in that state :
pause () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
Resolution
Upgrade to Policy Server 12.8SP4.
In case of Buffered tracing, A Ring buffer is introduced which uses a
size of 10 mb. Due to large size of data pumped in its causing issue.
Increase the size of RingBuffer to 30 or more :
Registry name : SizeOfRingBuffer
Path of the registry :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Netegrity\SiteMinder\CurrentVersion\LogConfig
Current value is 10.
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