On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 Apr 2002 8:02 pm, Viraj Alankar wrote:
> > Thanks, I've made these changes and the memory usage does not seem bad. It
> > still grows a little, reporting about 26M via top, but definitely not as
> > bad as before. I will do some tests with creating new Mail::SpamAssassin
> > objects instead of re-using one to see if there is any difference in memory
> > usage.
> >
> > I did come across a small message (about 80k), that just causes
> > spamassassin to hang. This message seems to have ALOT of blank lines in it.
> > I've put it up here:
> >
> > http://www.cse.fau.edu/~valankar/blah.gz
> >
> > Didn't debug this much, but I did disable network checks and still the same
> > hang result with this message.
>
> Now that's interesting. I wonder if it's constructed specifically to make SA
> hang... I guess we need to redo the body test parser to grep out blank lines.
> *sigh*

Is there anything that can be done to -avoid- this?

Perhaps wrapping the regex portion of SA in an alarm() timer so that
long-running regexes just get exited from?

-- 
Charlie Watts
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