Quoting James Cameron (quozl at us.netrek.org):
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 02:49:40PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote:
> > Sage is stand-alone, so I changed the /etc/nsswitch.conf 
> > hosts:      files dns
> 
> Has fixed the leak.
> 
> VSZ of 1672 at start,
> VSZ of 1780 after 83 connections,
> VSZ of 1988 after 1943 connections,
> VSZ of 1988 after 2823 connections.
> 
> Conclusion: the default Red Hat V6.2 install leaves NIS enabled in the
> /etc/nsswitch.conf file, resulting in memory leaks during reverse host
> lookups.
> 

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