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Re: [milter-greylist] memory consumption

2008-10-22 by Mark Walker

Is the decision to keep data in memory as opposed to some sort of 
database a speed issue?  It seems that there would be a lot of benefit 
to keeping the active data in an sql database accessible from other apps.
 

Oliver Fromme wrote:
>
>
> Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
> > I just did some stress-testing on milter-greylist in order to test its
> > memory consumption and it seems that there are some leaks to be found.
>
> milter-greylist keeps all data (all triples) in memory.
> So it is expected that it will grow if new triples come
> in faster than old triples are expired, which was certainly
> the case in your 30-minutes test when the timeout was set
> to 1d.
>
> Best regards
> Oliver
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