System: Dell 2650 Debian Stable Perl 5.6.1-8.6 MIMEDefang 2.39 Sendmail 8.12.3-6.6 Spamassassin 2.60
This system has 6GB RAM. On boot, after everything gets going, the system consumes just under 1GB. Over time, this useage is slowly creeping up. After a couple of days, it starts swapping, performance plummets, and it needs a reboot. I'm suspecting a memory leak related to our recent installation of MIMEDefang + Spamassassin. I say this, because prior to this, we didn't have this problem. We are processing about 32,000 emails per day. Possibly pertinent mimedefang settings: MX_RECIPIENT_CHECK=yes MX_MINIMUM=15 MX_MAXIMUM=40 MX_STATS=yes MX_REQUESTS=200 I have mounted my spooldir on a 500MB tmpfs (rather largish, I think. What do people recommend sizewise?) I am currently running mimedefang compiled using --disable-embedded-perl, to see if that helps. I have to wait a while now to see if the memory useage trendline flattens out. Does anyone have any suggestions about things I could try, or things I could do to help pin this problem down? On a (probably) unrelated note: what do lines like this mean in the stats file? About to execute command 'recipok ... Each time this happens, a new slave is started, even if the number of busy/free slaves doesn't seem to require it. _________________________ Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
