Same issue on Gentoo with vpopmail-5.4.16. I searched a few months ago
and have been scanning the mail lists since then with no mention of a
bug fix specific to this.
For now I just monitor and use
# /etc/init.d/courier-authlib restart
every so often.
My mail server is not so busy so I can afford to do this. A cron job to
restart would be easy to implement.
Pat
Matthew Goodman wrote:
Hello,
I've noticed that courier-authlib slowly uses up memory over time on
my Gentoo linux server. Using 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 kernel, compiler GCC
4.1.2, glibc 2.5-r4. Using the authvchkpw library, authdaemond usage
looks like this after about a week:
top - 00:42:49 up 22 days, 20:31, 2 users, load average: 2.08, 2.52,
2.54
Tasks: 271 total, 2 running, 269 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Mem: 2074712k total, 1966420k used, 108292k free, 134520k buffers
Swap: 1951800k total, 1113692k used, 838108k free, 547588k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
COMMAND
7885 root 15 0 217m 68m 932 S 0 3.4 0:40.84
/usr/lib/courier/courier-authlib/authdaemond
7884 root 15 0 216m 66m 928 S 0 3.3 0:39.71
/usr/lib/courier/courier-authlib/authdaemond
7883 root 15 0 208m 66m 928 S 0 3.3 0:38.41
/usr/lib/courier/courier-authlib/authdaemond
7886 root 15 0 217m 65m 928 S 0 3.2 0:40.57
/usr/lib/courier/courier-authlib/authdaemond
7882 root 15 0 212m 65m 932 S 0 3.2 0:38.97
/usr/lib/courier/courier-authlib/authdaemond
Once I restart the service, usage looks much better:
root 14565 0.0 0.0 4644 1132 ? S 00:43 0:00
/usr/lib/courier/courier-authlib/authdaemond
root 14569 0.0 0.0 4688 1340 ? S 00:43 0:00
/usr/lib/courier/courier-authlib/authdaemond
root 14570 0.0 0.0 4644 424 ? S 00:43 0:00
/usr/lib/courier/courier-authlib/authdaemond
root 14571 0.0 0.0 4688 1340 ? S 00:43 0:00
/usr/lib/courier/courier-authlib/authdaemond
root 14572 0.0 0.0 4812 1436 ? S 00:43 0:00
/usr/lib/courier/courier-authlib/authdaemond
root 14573 0.0 0.0 4812 1476 ? S 00:43 0:00
/usr/lib/courier/courier-authlib/authdaemond
From /etc/courier/authlib/authdaemonrc:
---------------------------------------
authmodulelist="authvchkpw "
daemons="5"
DEFAULTOPTIONS=""
LOGGEROPTS=""
------------------------
There is another post on the courier-users mailing list about this,
user is also using a Gentoo environment and he was told to post on the
vchkpw mailing list. Link included for reference:
http://readlist.com/lists/lists.sourceforge.net/courier-users/0/3901.html
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Matt
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