[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang embedded perl stability issues
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Fri Jun 25 10:01:53 EDT 2004
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.
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