Milter-greylist

On 02/16/2010 04:08 PM, Peter Bonivart wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Dietmar Rieder <adrieder@...
> <mailto:adrieder%40sbox.tugraz.at>> wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > we are running milter-greylist-4.2.3 on Solaris 10 x86, it works great
>  > so far, but I'm a little concerned by its memory consumption. Right
>  > after starting the service it uses < 30Mb of RAM but after running it
>  > about 48h it uses already ~1Gb of RAM.
>  >
>  > Is this normal?
>  > Is there something that could be done to limit the memory consumption?
>
> I package miltergreylist for www.opencsw.org and it's "normal" that it
> leaks memory. I use a restart script to keep it in check.

that's sad

> With commands like "pmap -x <miltergreylist-pid>" you can see how much
> memory it's consuming. From there you can easily build a script to
> restart it before it goes to insane values.

ok thanks, sounds "hackish" though
It is something I wanted to avoid :-(

> Funny thing is that some Linux users (including myself) have no issues
> with this on miltergreylist but with ClamAV it's the other way round,
> ClamAV seems to leek more memory on Linux than on Solaris.

Strange, and you are right I did not experience memory leaks with other 
milters (MIMEDefang, milter-sender, clamav) on Solaris.

Didi