[Mimedefang] Out Of Memory

Kevin A. McGrail kmcgrail at pccc.com
Tue Apr 6 10:09:35 EDT 2004


> I finally MIMEDefang up and running on my BSD box, but now
> /var/log/maillog has the following error quite often:
> Apr  5 14:14:56 hades mimedefang-multiplexor: Starting slave 1 (pid 277)
> (2 running): Bringing slaves up to minSlaves (2)
> Apr  5 14:14:59 hades mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 7 stderr: Out of
> memory!
> Apr  5 14:14:59 hades mimedefang-multiplexor: Reap: Idle slave 7 (pid
> 276) exited normally with status 1 (SLAVE DIED UNEXPECTEDLY)
> Apr  5 14:14:59 hades mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 7 resource usage:
> req=0, scans=0, user=6.280, sys=0.737, nswap=0, majflt=0, minflt=16333,
> maxrss=31656, bi=0, bo=0

I would say you are out of memory.  If I am reading your log here correctly,
I believe the maxRSS is the maximum amount of physical memory so you have
32MB of memory in 7 processes.  That's 224MB of memory.

How much RAM is in the box you are using?

Regards,
KAM



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