Milter-greylist

On 02/16/2010 09:37 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
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>
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Dietmar Rieder wrote:
>  >
>  > Solaris 10 provides several libraries with implementation of malloc
>  > different from the standard malloc shipped with libc. So if you link
>  > milter-greylist to libumem (or libbsdmalloc) the memory consumption
>  > stays at a normal level. (see: man libumem [man libbsdmalloc])
>
> Under Solaris, is not even necessary to explicitly link to libumem in
> order to use it. The malloc functions can be overloaded by setting
> this in the environment before starting the program:
>
> LD_PRELOAD=libumem.so

Right, I know, but then I should never forget to set it ;-)
That's why it linked it at compile time.

> Regardless, if switching to libumem solves problems, there is surely a
> bug somewhere. Libumem supports some built in debugging features
> which might help to discover the location of the problem.

...I suspected that, but unfortunately I do not have the skills nor 
resources for debugging this problem, but hopefully there is someone out 
there who does...

Didi