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Re: [milter-greylist] DOes SPF cause memory leak?

2008-10-23 by Petar Bogdanovic

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:07:58AM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >>>>> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:31:15 +0200
> >>>>> Petar Bogdanovic <petar@...> said:
> 
> petar> It apparently has nothing to do with libspf since I get similar results
> petar> with libspf_alt and libspf2 (1.2.8). The situation even got worse with
> petar> libspf2 from another point of view -- milter-greylist using libspf_alt
> petar> claimed about 15% of the CPU when it had to deal with 900 simultaneous
> petar> connections while the same situation ate every second of the available
> petar> CPU-time when linked against libspf2. That's why I wasn't able to drop
> petar> the same amounth of mails through milter-greylist+libspf2: the CPU was
> petar> the bottleneck.
> 
> The BIND9's resolver requires res_ndestroy() for cleanup res_state.
> However, libspf2 doesn't issue res_ndestroy() but issues res_nclose().
> It causes memory leak.  The FreeBSD port of libspf2 has a patch to
> address this issue.

Thanks, I applied all patches (~10) from the FreeBSD Ports tree and the
problem is gone. The memory usage of milter-greylist is actually frozen
now, no matter how hard I try. Also, the claimed cpu-time is much lower.

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