High Memory Usage for MailScanner {Virus Scanned}

[Christo Bezuidenhout]

I used the compile from source way. 

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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Alex Neuman
> Sent: 24 June 2004 09:45 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: High Memory Usage for MailScanner {Virus Scanned}
> 
> How are you running sendmail 8.13? Did you use an RPM? From 
> where? I want to be able to install sendmail 8.13 to try out 
> the GreetPause parameter but don't want to go the "compile 
> from source" way...
> 
> 
> > I have done a new install last night after we had a bad 
> week so far. 
> > My server keeps running out of memory. we are running fedora core 1 
> > sendmail 8.13.0 SA 2.63 and Latest Stable MailScanner
> >  
> > here are the mailscanner processes that are running. For 
> some reason 
> > the fourth line uses 79M of memory.
> >  
> >  
> > [root at mail root]# ps aux | fgrep MailScanner root     18625 
>  0.0  0.2 
> > 22580 2024 ?        S    15:27   0:00 /usr/bin/perl 
> > -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner 
> > /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf root     18683  0.4  1.3 
> 50428 10364 
> > ?       S    15:27   0:13 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner 
> > /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf 
> root     18719  
> > 0.8  0.9 49756 6940 ?        S    15:28   0:23 /usr/bin/perl 
> > -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner 
> > /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf root     21277 52.5 79.2 2034748 
> > 587096 ?    R    15:47  12:56 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner 
> > /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf 
> root     21935  
> > 0.0  0.7 49048 5572 ?        S    15:53   0:00 /usr/bin/perl 
> > -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner 
> > /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf root     21936  0.0  0.8 
> 51100 6440 
> > ?        S    15:53   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner 
> > /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf 
> root     22555  
> > 0.7  4.9 48392 36944 ?       S    16:01   0:04 /usr/bin/perl 
> > -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner 
> > /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf root     23268  0.1  4.1 
> 50792 30432 
> > ?       R    16:09   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner 
> > /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf 
> root     23375  
> > 0.2  5.0 48676 37352 ?       S    16:11   0:00 /usr/bin/perl 
> > -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner 
> > /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf root     23385  0.5  1.3 
> 50428 10356 
> > ?       S    16:11   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner 
> > /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf 
> root     23386  
> > 0.0  1.4 50428 10460 ?       R    16:11   0:00 /usr/bin/perl 
> > -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner 
> > /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf root     23389  0.0  0.0  
> 5248  456 
> > pts/0    R    16:11   0:00 fgrep MailScanner
> >  
> > My conf has only 5 processes per CPU enabled.
> >  
> > Any Ideas? Please this is my mem usage after i restarted the 
> > MailScanner processes.
> >  
> >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     
> > cached
> > Mem:        741232     396496     344736          0      14640     
> > 174424 -/+ buffers/cache:     207432     533800
> > Swap:      1502068      86372    1415696
> >  
> > The free goes down to about 5000 then the server start 
> killing processes.
> >  
> > If more info needed please let me know.
> >  
> > Christo Bezuidenhout
> >  
> >
> >
> >
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