Mailscanner memory-size increasing

[Kevin Spicer]

On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 10:50, Leen Besselink wrote:
> That should not be happing I would say.

Actually the process size and number of processes seems pretty normal.
The parent process is smaller because it is fairly minimal, a lot of the
memory intensive stuff is left to the children.  The children do fork
copies of themselves during processing to handle various timeouts etc.
which is why you sometimes see a third process.

You didn't mention how much ram and swap you have, which is pretty
crucial in discussing this kind of thing.  Also do you have any
filesystems mounted in tmpfs (such as the MailScanner work directory or
/tmp)?




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