Dianne Skoll wrote, >> Thanks for pointing it out; might want to file a bug with >> sendmail.org. >> It would be helpful if you could obtain a core dump of the huge >> MIMEDefang >> process to make sure the leak is in libmilter (though I cannot think >> of where >> else it might happen.)
I was thinking of that, but I just didn't grab it at the time, and I'm reluctant to go back on the production servers. Besides, given Redhat's provisioning of a positively ancient release (8.14.4) in their RPM, I think the Sendmail folks could very fairly point out that it's ancient history to them. I only mention it because Redhat users may trip over this. Then again Redhat noodges everyone to Postfix. Bill Cole wrote, > Random data point: I appear to have been running with '-y' on for many > weeks currently and for multi-month stretches prior to that as a result > of some troubleshooting with Postfix something like a year ago, and have > never noticed any memory leakage or CPU hogging as a result. . . . > The version of libmilter MD uses is 8.15.2 I think this illustrates very well that whatever-it-is in the milter library was fixed some time in the past seven years. Once we were looking for it, we could see the bloat start within a few hours' time. The flow on these hosts is about 5,000 an hour in the summer. Joseph Brennan _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
