Thanks for this hint.
We also have queries from EMC control center to the hosts. The hosts are configured for these queries and have a local user that is used for this and is succesfully logged in (and out).
However, I noticed in hostd.log that these queries sometimes take very long (> 2 hours!), and shortly before the user logs off again hostd RAM usage jumps up by about 40 MB! So, this is definitely impacting hostd RAM usage ...
The strange thing is that this memory is not released when the EMC user logs off. In fact I have never seen hostd RAM usage going down again, it's ever increasing ...
To me this looks like a leak in hostd that is not releasing RAM after certain types of operations.
Andreas
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