Milter-greylist

Ondrej Valousek wrote:

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> 3. It also seems to me that it is leaking memory, but I am not sure.
> Maybe it is just OS thing - the daemon is doing lots of malloc/free of
> small pieces of memory an thus fragmenting the free pool....?
>   
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AND

shuttlebox replied:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Ondrej Valousek <webserv@...> wrote:
>   
>>  3. It also seems to me that it is leaking memory, but I am not sure.
>>  Maybe it is just OS thing - the daemon is doing lots of malloc/free of
>>  small pieces of memory an thus fragmenting the free pool....?
>>     
>
> It's not an OS thing in my case, my Solaris servers stay up for years
> without problems. Isn't it strange that the database dump on disk is
> always 11-12 MB in my case but milter-greylist keeps growing beyond
> 512 MB in a week or so? It's like Firefox to me, I have just accepted
> that it will eat my memory until there's none left. :-)
>   

I thought that in previous versions there had been issues, and some 
specifically with Solaris. I recall exchanges on the list going over 
coding specifics with respect to Solaris, and then manu indicating that 
he thought it was fixed in the 4.0 betas. That is at least in part what 
lead me to make the jump. And, as I said in my reply to manu's post on 
this thread, milter-greylist has not gone down (and thereby caused my 
greycheck script to take action) since I upgraded on Nov. 28.

That's not to say it hasn't been restarted. I've upgraded spamassassin 
and sendmail during that time, and we've also been tweaking a lot of 
other things that involve restarting sendmail. But, I no longer have to 
worry about milter-greylist bombing out just out of the blue, so to speak.

So, shuttlebox, are you up on 4.0? Ondrej didn't say whether he was on 
Solaris or not.



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