MailScanner 4.43.8 Memory Usage Extreme Growth

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Hi,
    I upgraded from 4.43.2 to 4.43.8 this morning, on Solaris 9.  My
MailScanner processes all run at 59 to 61 M of memory each.  No memory
bloat here.  My system is nice and perky.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 20:10:07 +0100
> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
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> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MailScanner 4.43.8 Memory Usage Extreme Growth
> 
> Can you try a bit of a binary chop and try to deduce which version first 
> started the problem?
> 4.40.1 and 4.43.8 are a long way apart, it's going to be a pretty hopeless 
> search inspecting all the code changes by eye.
>
> Ade Fewings wrote:
>
>> I've just upgraded from 4.40.11 to 4.43.8 and, with exactly the same 
>> MailScanner.conf, the new MailScanner processes start and grow in memory 
>> size, seemingly forever.  Switching back to 4.40.11, the processes stop and 
>> stabilize at about 57M each (under prstat in Solaris).  The new ones go 
>> sailing through that and only stop when I kill them, at which point the 
>> machine is out of memory and swap (each MailScanner being >>500M by this 
>> stage).
>
>
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