[Mimedefang] clamd memory leak?
Les Mikesell
les at futuresource.com
Sat Apr 17 00:54:26 EDT 2004
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 22:24, Kelsey Cummings wrote:
> That's probably true but clamd has insane memory requirements for
> processing deeply nested mime messages. (See the thread about this for
> more information. David's hinted that he might patch the MIME module so
> you can retrieve and nesting depth from it easily which could be used to
> block excessively deep messages in MD.)
The interesting thing in my case was that a single run didn't
seem to be so much of a problem memory-wise as that mimedefang
timed out the connection. However the memory wasn't completely
released or re-used on subsequent runs so it kept growing as
the sending server retried the tmp failures.
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Les Mikesell
les at futuresource.com
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