On 4/24/06, Greg McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen, > > I've been running the mail server for a few days now and am not > convinced its a memory leak anymore :) While the free memory does > still drop - it eventually stops at about 20mb free. If it was a > memory leak IMO the server would eventually run out of memory and die.
You dont mention which Unix you are using, but with Linux the kernel will cache data in memory until about full. this means that emails that have long queues and such will not seek to disk as often and stuff like that. I think that the BSD's can do this also. So you will see that memory will fill up, but process memory wont add up to how much is used. On linux, top will show Mem: 2073520k total, 2051872k used, 21648k free, 80280k buffers The buffers being what is cached. > > The server happily processes around 50,000 mails a day with no > problems. Also if I run "top", 0K of the page file is used, so I'm > thinking now maybe it just takes all the memory and uses it. The weird > thing is that when I view the processes and the memory they are using, > it only adds up to about 400mb out of the 1gb. > > > Unfortunately that didnt seem to help. The memory is still dropping. :( > _______________________________________________ > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html > -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
