[Mimedefang] graphdefang cores with large amounts of data

[Kevin A. McGrail]

Honestly, I'm more worried about the graphing engine than the collection of
data engine.  I think it should be fairly easy to modify this to put the
info in mysql rather than DB_File which should optimize things considerably
IMO.  I am also wondering if File::ReadBackwards is efficient or if Thomas
Boutell will tell me the system he uses for Wusage to parse the logs without
reading backwards.

Any thoughts?

KAM



> I am having a similar issue with graphdefang on my server.  The summary
> db is now over 160MB and processing takes 10 to 15 mins (running once an
> hour)  I'm afraid if this keeps escalating the server will start
> tempfailing mail when graphdefang is running because there won't be
> enough memory or CPU.  I can nice graphdefang to take care of the cpu
> issue, but then I'll have to start worrying about when the point will
> come where it takes longer than an hour to process and running it once
> an hour is not doable anymore. Also graphdefang is using upwards of
> 500MB of RAM each time it runs.  Is there going to be a point where I
> can't run it without thrashing the machine?