On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Newsmirror wrote:

> 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

It was sufficent to read the changelog (1.20):

http://www.xmailserver.org/ChangeLog.html

The dump you posted is a kernel panic, that makes me think of something 
wrong with the machine too. A program leaking is not going to generate a 
kernel dump. Definitely update to 1.21 ...



- Davide

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