[Mimedefang] memory leak?
Ron Peterson
rpeterso at mtholyoke.edu
Mon Feb 9 23:28:01 EST 2004
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Justin wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
>
> > also realize that x86 hardware has to do various internal hacks to deal
> > with memory above 2-4 Gigs. [2 gigs for some types of hardware and 4
> > gigs for other types.] Also check for things in your /proc/slabinfo to
> > see if anything is full.. or if dmesg is reporting some sort of network
> > issue.
>
> This would be one very good reason for stepping up to a 2.6 kernel. I've
> been running them on a couple of my servers since the rc's and have been
> most impressed. Support for larger amounts of memory has been greatly
> improved.
Good suggestions (here and elsewhere). Thanks.
Unfortunately, this problem takes days to develop, so pinning it down is a
pain. And when it does crop up, I can't spend too much time fiddling
around before I just have to fix the damn thing.
So this might be a slow thread.. ;)
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Ron Peterson
Network & Systems Manager
Mount Holyoke College
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