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

2005-10-13 by Fredrik Nyberg DC

Matt Kettler wrote:
> Based on that you're talking about 50 million entries. If you've got a 5-day
> timeout that's only 10 million attempts per day. For a site with 8,000 users
> that doesn't seem unreasonable.

We have around 1 million entries in our greylist database. What really 
bugs me is that the current 2.3 GB of VmData that milter-greylist is 
using does not show up in physical memory or swap... it will be 
interresting to see what happens when the process hits 3 GB, since this 
is the amount of memory + swap that one of the servers has.

Could perhaps the kernel (Linux 2.6.9-11.ELsmp, CentOS 4.1) be reporting 
the memory usage wrong? This problem seems to have started since I began 
using the mxsync function.

Time for me to "Use the Source, Luke".

Cheers,
Fredrik Nyberg

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