[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang embedded perl stability issues

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Chris Gauch wrote:

> A couple weeks ago I opted to use the MIMEDefang embedded perl interpreter
> (by turning on MX_EMBED_PERL=yes in the MD init script), however, I have
> noticed some stability problems when using the embedded interpreter.  Every
> morning at 5am the MD multiplexor essentially craps out,

What OS are you on?  I don't observe this.

> The embedded perl interpreter definitely minimizes the memory usage by the
> MD slaves, but I don't really notice an overall improvement in total memory
> usage when using the embedded perl option.  All 1.5GB of RAM is still used
> up entirely,

That's normal under Linux.  It uses memory aggressively to do file system
caching.

--
David.