[Mimedefang] Embedded Perl problems

[Josh Kelley]

Lucas Albers wrote:

>What version of perl are you running?
>  
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5.8.0, the version that ships with RHEL 3.

>Look at the shared memory, it will indicate that each slave is sharing 2/3
>of it's memory with the master.
>Like such:
>defang     9   0 31992  31M 19972 S     0.0  6.3   0:00 mimedefang-mult
>defang     9   0 31040  30M 20600 S     0.0  6.1   0:00 mimedefang-mult
>defang     9   0 30220  29M 29740 S     0.0  5.9   0:00 mimedefang-mult
>defang     9   0 30212  29M 29732 S     0.0  5.9   0:09 mimedefang-mult
>defang     9   0  1632 1628  1408 S     0.0  0.3   0:00 mimedefang
>defang     4   0  1632 1628  1408 S     0.0  0.3   0:00 mimedefang
>defang     9   0  1632 1628  1408 S     0.0  0.3   0:00 mimedefang
>defang     9   0  1632 1628  1408 S     0.0  0.3   0:00 mimedefang
>
>See the number after 31m that is 20m or so?
>You can see te 3rd and 4th slave aren't using any extra memory, they are
>sharing all from the parent.
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That's what I was looking at.  The 5th column for the 
mimedefang-multiplexors was only 3m or so, the same as it is when I have 
embedded Perl disabled.

>You need to specifically enable the embedded option with the -E switch on
>the multiplexor startup script.
>  
>
I'm using the provided init script for Red Hat, so I can set the 
appropriate option in /etc/sysconfig/mimedefang to make the init script 
pass the -E option.

I've confirmed that ps lists the children as "mimedefang-multiplexor" 
rather than "perl mimedefang.pl", which should mean that embedded Perl 
is enabled.

Josh Kelley