MailScanner 4.43.8 Memory Usage Extreme Growth

[Randy Fishel]

   Over the weekend, I upgraded from 4.41.3 to 4.43.8 on an S10 system, and 
there were no issues or excessive memory usage (just a bit smaller then 
Jeff's).

rf

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> 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>
>> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>> 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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