Hello list, 

After 61 days uptime, my XMail suddenly crashed. After the crash the system
began to behave flaky and some other processes locked up or went down aswell,
so I don't know whether XMail was to blame or if it just was the first
process to take the hit from some weird system wobbling (kernel built
july 2003). A reboot and everything went back to normal again.

The reason I suspect XMail being part of this, is that I have noticed it
has a memory leak. The leak is very predictible occurring every 48 hours
at about noon. I'd like to mention also that a freshly started XMail takes
about 15% of the target system RAM, when the crash occured it was up to
some 50% and along with other processes at that point was knocking at
100% RAM usage. I have attached the system log and a link to a graph
showing a RAM trace over the past 30 days, aswell as the XMail sudden
death: http://www.saltstorm.net/tmp/xmail-leak.png

The target system is Linux 2.4.2x with XMail 1.18

system log if it helps:

Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual 
address 6d742e63
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel:  printing eip:
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel: c0145001
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel: *pde = 00000000
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel: Oops: 0000
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel: CPU:    0
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c0145001>]    Not tainted
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel: EFLAGS: 00010a93
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel: eax: c1260398   ebx: 6d742e63   ecx: 0000000f   
edx: c1240000
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel: esi: 6d742e53   edi: cbaa8160   ebp: 296bcbd6   
esp: c7c3fef0
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel: Process XMail (pid: 181, stackpage=c7c3f000)
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel: Stack: c013c760 6d742e53 c1260398 c4536005 
00000015 c7c3ff8c cbd063c0 cbaa8160 
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel:        c7c3ff8c c013c760 cbaa8160 c7c3ff8c 
00000000 c013d2ad cbaa8160 c7c3ff8c 
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel:        00000000 ffffffeb 00000242 cbaa8160 
c7c3ff84 c013d6bf c7c3ff8c cbaa8160 
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel: Call Trace:    [<c013c760>] [<c013c760>] 
[<c013d2ad>] [<c013d6bf>] [<c01326b4>]
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel:   [<c0132a3b>] [<c01070b3>]
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel: 
Mar  4 10:21:11 eowyn kernel: Code: 8b 1b 39 6e 44 75 e8 8b 7c 24 28 39 7e 0c 
75 df 8b 47 4c 85 

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