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Content Manager OnDemand for Multiplatforms V8.5.0.6 memory leak fixes and performance enhancements

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Abstract

Content Manager OnDemand for Multiplatforms V8.5.0.6 has identified and fixed memory leaks which may impact customers using previous 8.5 versions and have also added performance enhancements to the product.

Content

Customers running versions of Content Manager OnDemand V8.5 prior to V8.5.0.6 are encouraged to upgrade.

Identified memory leaks

PlatformDescription
MultiplatformsA leak involving gskit

A leak involving logins

A potential leak involving ODBC
AIX onlyA per thread memory leak

While minor in size, these leaks are cumulative and therefore would eventually impact long running or heavily used systems with increased memory usage. The increased memory usage has been shown to impact performance over time.

Performance enhancements

PlatformDescription
MultiplatformsTSM connection pooling

arsmaint -v performance enhancement

Unload performance from cache enhancement


AIX OnlyIncreased executable page size to 64kb pages from 4kb pages

External commands are now processed via a helper thread to increase performance on systems with large memory footprints

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Document Information

Modified date:
25 September 2022

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swg21613018