[Mimedefang] Memory Usage

[Jonathan Maliepaard]

Hello

I run a small ISP and at 9am (now) am processing about 5000 delivery
attempts an hour. I have never noticed this before, but when running
"top" and sorting by memory usage, I see that each Mimedefang process is
using about 36Mb of ram. Is this normal? I have 1.5GB of ram installed
and it is using the lot. Can anyone offer me any advice on if I have
sufficient processes open, or whether I should stuff some more ram in
and  increase the processes?

Thanks Jon.


Mem:  1550588k av, 1495476k used,   55112k free,       0k shrd,  174608k
buff
       386476k active,             977620k inactive
Swap: 1052152k av,   61764k used,  990388k free                  535568k
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU
COMMAND
27969 defang    18   0 37176  36M  2680 S     2.5  2.3   0:50   0
mimedefang.pl
27959 defang    18   0 37148  36M  2676 S    19.1  2.3   1:31   0
mimedefang.pl
30555 defang    15   0 34548  33M  2656 S     0.0  2.2   0:14   0
mimedefang.pl
27973 defang    17   0 34348  33M  2656 S     5.5  2.2   0:32   0
mimedefang.pl
27978 defang    17   0 33792  32M  2656 S     0.3  2.1   0:18   0
mimedefang.pl
30559 defang    15   0 33708  32M  2656 S     0.0  2.1   0:07   0
mimedefang.pl
30561 defang    16   0 33568  32M  2656 S     0.0  2.1   0:08   0
mimedefang.pl
 3964 named     16   0 35016  32M 15080 S     0.0  2.1 591:53   0 named
32673 defang    16   0 33500  32M  2656 S     0.0  2.1   0:05   0
mimedefang.pl
30563 defang    15   0 32272  31M  2656 S     0.0  2.0   0:04   0
mimedefang.pl
10079 defang    16   0 32252  31M  2656 S     0.0  2.0   0:03   0
mimedefang.pl
30558 defang    15   0 32068  31M  2656 S     0.0  2.0   0:07   0
mimedefang.pl
 6905 defang    16   0 31736  30M  2656 S     0.0  2.0   0:02   0
mimedefang.pl
 6901 defang    16   0 31588  30M  2656 S     0.0  2.0   0:02   0
mimedefang.pl
11169 defang    15   0 31260  30M  2656 S     0.0  2.0   0:02   0
mimedefang.pl
13986 defang    15   0 30648  29M  2652 S     0.0  1.9   0:01   0
mimedefang.pl
 5331 defang    16   0 23592  23M  2560 S     0.0  1.5   0:00   0 spamd
 4158 root      18   0 42492  17M 17128 S     0.0  1.1   1:26   0 java
14430 defang    20   0  6328 6320  1272 R     3.9  0.4   0:00   0 uvscan
 4001 ntp       16   0  4024 4024  2204 S     0.0  0.2   0:06   0 ntpd
 1516 root      16   0  5040 2932  2896 S     0.0  0.1   0:11   0 httpd
 5374 defang    15   0  2312 2312   660 S     0.0  0.1   0:22   0
mimedefang
14121 root      16   0  2132 2128  1604 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0
sendmail
10734 root      16   0  2132 2124  1640 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0
sendmail
14426 root      15   0  2116 2108  1812 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0
sendmail
14422 root      15   0  2108 2104  1620 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0
sendmail
14132 root      16   0  2100 2096  1580 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0
sendmail
14416 root      16   0  2100 2096  1588 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0
sendmail
30489 root      16   0  2096 2092  1572 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0
sendmail
 9211 root      16   0  2096 2092  1568 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0
sendmail
10727 root      16   0  2096 2092  1584 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0
sendmail
11655 root      16   0  2096 2092  1588 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0
sendmail
11915 root      16   0  2096 2092  1584 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0
sendmail
12936 root      16   0  2096 2092  1580 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0
sendmail
13834 root      15   0  2096 2092  1584 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0
sendmail
13981 root      16   0  2096 2092  1580 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0
sendmail
14235 root      16   0  2096 2092  1588 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0
sendmail