On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>
> I was previously running xmail 1.16 on freebsd and it was after letting it
> run for a period of time, it would blow up using like 400M of memory when i
> would do a top.
>
> >From upgrading to 1.17, it seems to have fixed the issue.  After running it
> for a day, it's been stable at roughly 5000K.

It's not phisical memory used, it is virtual memory. Even on linux, when
you have a burst of SMTP and/or POP3 connections XMail creates threads and
the OS has to allocate a 2MB *virtual* memory region for that (each thread).
It then depends on the OS's VM reclaim policy to shrink it back.



- Davide

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