[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.. ;)

_________________________
Ron Peterson
Network & Systems Manager
Mount Holyoke College



More information about the MIMEDefang mailing list