Hi Paul, Cheers for the advice, i've lowered it from around 10000 to 100 for the time being. Restarting dbmail-lmtpd (40 processes) just free'd me up 1.5gig:)
Kind Regards James Greig -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul J Stevens Sent: 24 February 2008 21:26 To: DBMail mailinglist Subject: Re: [Dbmail] dbmail-lmtpd memory usage James Greig wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I'm not sure if this is a cause for concern or not. Our dbmail-lmtpd > memory usage just seems to be creeping up and up to the extent that our > boxes are running out of memory. It's a fairly heavily used mail > cluster, so i'm torn between it just out growing its hardware or whether > there's a possible memory leak in dbmail-lmtpd?? > > One of our boxes running dbmail-lmtpd has died two or three times in the > past few months and it appears to have been down to memory usage. > dbmail-lmtpd seems to always be on top, right now each process of > dbmail-lmtpd is using approximately 40m-50m RES (Resident) memory, > however, at times when the machine has exhausted memory, lmtpd has been > using up to 130m RES per process, is this normal?? > > P.S we're running 2.2.7 James, not normal at all. Someone else reported possible leakage in the lmtp daemon as well, so it's a definite suspect. Until someone tracks this down consider lowering the maxconnects setting in dbmail.conf for lmtp. If necessary lower it to 1. -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
