Performance problems

[Kevin Spicer]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 20:29, List Account wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I know this is more of a RedHat problem than a MailScanner problem, but I
> can't get an answer from the taroon list.  I'm running RedHat ES 3.0 with
> MailScanner, postfix, ClamAV and SpamAssassin.  From a fresh reboot,
> MailScanner performs beautifully, and will continue to do so for about a
> month.  After a month however, all the memory in the system is eaten up by
> buffer and cache according to top.  MailScanner then starts to use the swap
> space, which put the performance in the toilet.  Is there any way to limit
> the amount of memory used for buffer and cache?  I've looked all over the
> net, but maybe someone here has run into this and has a fix.  My machine is
> a Dell 1750 with dual 2.4 P4s and 1 GB RAM.

Odds are you have a process running wiith a memory leak, this won't be
MailScanner as MailScanner restarts itself every few hours to avoid this
problem.




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