NWPA.NLM Consuming Large Amounts of Memory

[Arsynic]

On a couple of my Netware 5.1 servers, the cache buffers have been leaking steadily week by week. It took me some time to isolate the offending module, but earlier this week I found out that the culprit was "NWPA.NLM", the Netware Peripheral Architecture module. I had to go to Monitor --> Virtual Memory --> Address space and there it was sitting at the top devouring 300+ MB of memory and steadily eating up more. I scoured the Novell Knowledgebase and found out that TID 10069351 seemed to apply to my situation. It has something to do with Backup Exec using a particular file. I applied the fix suggested in the article which was basically adding a switch to the BESTART.NCF file.

Just for comparison, I checked my healthy servers for the correct amount of memory that NWPA.NLM should be using and found out that normally it should be using around 1.6MB. So after I applied the fix, I restarted the server to free the memory and the cache buffers were where they needed to be. Now I come in this morning eager to see the cache buffers stay where they were the day before. However, to my dismay, the memory was slowly being consumed again. I go to Address Space to see who the offender is, and guess what? It's NWPA again, consuming 32MB of memory and looking for more. I need help. Do you guys have any suggestions?

 

[Lou0686]

Hi,

Try switching from nwaspi to becdm as the link below indicates.

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/254179.htm

Lou

 

[Arsynic]

Thanks. That's the same solution I tried before except I didn't do "bestop" to unload the module. The Novell TID didn't go into that detail. Thanks alot. If this works, you get a big virtual cookie. It will take a couple of days for me to see if it's working since memory tends to leak daily or weekly. If they stay stable then I'll just have to do a warm boot to flush the cache buffers.

 

[Arsynic]

Still leaking...

But I know why. The servers don't have BECDM.CDM on them. I have it on one of my other servers but not on the problem ones. Can I copy it from one server to another?