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Re: [milter-greylist] memory footprint problem in 1.5.3->1.6rc1 update

2004-11-30 by manu@netbsd.org

Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb@...> wrote:

> I've tried to upgrade our mail servers (sparc running Solaris 2.8) from
> 1.5.3 to 1.6rc1. 

Heh, the release candodate trick worked one more time to get people
testing the beast :)

> I've noticed almost immediatly that the memory usage 
> climbed from ca 15MB to more than 220MB for a greylist.db that is around
> 100k entries. This makes the new version almost unusable on our current
> machines (Netra X1 with 512MB of RAM).
> 
> Any ideas of what could cause a so big difference ?

Does it remains steady at 220 MB? I'd like to be sure it's not a memory
leak.

I recall some token ordering in the parser could eat huge amount of
memory. Maybe that's the problem.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
Il y a 10 sortes de personnes dans le monde: ceux qui comprennent 
le binaire et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas.
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