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Re: [milter-greylist] milter-greylist using large amounts of virtual memory

2005-10-12 by Dan Hollis

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:55:31AM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote:
>> 4) using the lazyaw option will also greatly reduce the number of entries, at
>> the expense of making it much easier to get past the greylist.
> 5) buy some RAM :o)
> Seriously, 2 GB seems really huge to me. I'd be curious to learn how many
> message per day flow through this machine. The problem may be caused by
> a memory leak (in milter-greylist or in a library)

greylist still uses hundreds of megs of ram on busy machines (many 
millions of user-ip combinations). so really, need to move to external db.

-Dan

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