[Mimedefang] Tracking down high memory usage

[David F. Skoll]

David Nelson wrote:

> Does anyone have advice on how to track down high memory usage with MD?

Are you using lots of SpamAssassin rulesets?  That's typically
the culprit.

However>

> After a while, _some_ of the
> slaves (anywhere from 1 to 4) jump to about 175MB of memory (snips from
> top below).

That's pretty unusual.  You can try using ktrace to see what the
slaves are doing (your "ps" output looks FreeBSD-ish.)

Regards,

David.