MailScanner 4.43.8 Memory Usage Extreme Growth

[Martin Hepworth]

Ade Fewings wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 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).
> 
> It may be a really dumb thing, but i'd appreciate any suggestions........
> 
> Thanks
> Ade
> 
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Ade

I really hope it's not the same MailScanner.conf as a few options have 
been added since 4.40.....

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