Hello, Kai. Your comments are much appreciated.
Ron Smith
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"Having an email problem is painful, but character-building."
On Jul 25, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Sure you got that reply. You quoted his mail. But you didn't answer
the
question about memory. That's all I pointed out - and got this snap
back.
Ron, in case you didn't understand at all: you claim there is a memory
issue. But you have not provided any stats to date that back this
claim. A
reduction in your "inactive memory" (whatever that is) is no proof for
You are correct that inactive memory is not supposed to act that way.
But I do observe that it reaches a point where it does not appear that
inactive memory is being reused like its supposed and the way Apple
describes.
nothing at all. What you want to do is check the memory usage of
*spamd*
Yes, I've observed that and it does seem to stay nearly the same but
the processes become sluggish and sluggish until they are processing
only one or two emails a minute.
and related software and provide figures how big it is (absolute and
relative), how it grows etc. And thinking about this "inactive memory"
thing I think you should do some research and get information (also
to us)
Here's Apples URI on inactive memory: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342
what this actually means. Without any knowledge about the naming
conventions on your Mac OS a growing "inactive memory" would
actually mean
something *positive* to me as it might indicate that less memory is
in use
than before. That's a good thing, isn't it? That naming may be a
According the doc it should be a good thing. But when it tops off, it
doesn't seem to behave the way they say or describe.
Activity Monitor is a process monitoring app in the Utilities folder
of every OS X installation. You can see processes, memory allocations,
cpu times for each etcetera. That inactive memory pie chart is part of
that and it breaks down the memory allocation.
My other OS X servers are not have the ever increasing inactive memory
that I'm seeing with the mail server.
misleading trap of your Mac OS. So, you should explain it. And that
"Activity viewer" (again, whatever that is) may give inaccurate
figures,
anyway. You need to get some figures from command-line tools.
Kai
