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Re: [milter-greylist] Questions regarding memory footprint

2007-12-13 by Phil Randal

shuttlebox wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2007 5:31 PM, Benoit Branciard
> <benoit.branciard@...> wrote:
>>  Our milter-greylist currently eats up to 2GB. This is not a problem for
>>  now since our server has plenty of RAM (16GB), but since we compiled it
>>  in 32-bit, it may some day hit the 4GB-limit of per-process address
>>  space. So optimization would not hurt...
>>
>>  By the way, our database holds only 35000 entries; could there be some
>>  memory leak ? hmmm..
> 
> My db holds almost 200.000 entries and uses around 600 MB.

400,000 588MB

I too suspect a leak, as ours grows over time and dramatically shrinks 
on a restart.

Phil

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