[Mimedefang] Out of Memory Issues

[Gary McLean]

Hi Guys,

Ive recently installed A standard install of SpamAssassin and the latest
Mimedefang 2.56 with sendmail 8.13-3 on RedHat EWS 4 Update 3.

The Problem is, mimedefang.pl seems to be taking all the memory up and all
the processes die on the OS. Ive looked on the archive email threads and
this seems to be an on going issue.

Is there something wrong with my config? or is this usual?
Do I need more memory on my server?

top - 16:41:28 up  2:02,  3 users,  load average: 0.11, 0.09, 0.09
Tasks:  61 total,   1 running,  60 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  6.2% us, 21.1% sy,  0.0% ni, 70.4% id,  1.0% wa,  0.3% hi,  1.0%
si
Mem:    254848k total,   238960k used,    15888k free,    49280k buffers
Swap:  1048568k total,        0k used,  1048568k free,    32880k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 4458 defang    16   0  100m  97m 2616 S  7.5 39.3   1:55.50 mimedefang.pl
 2201 root      16   0  6980 4124 1604 S  0.3  1.6   0:37.75 hald
 2722 root      16   0  6992 2236 1796 S  1.0  0.9   0:25.91 sshd
 3188 root      16   0  9032 3396 2236 S  0.3  1.3   0:12.07 sendmail
 4952 defang    20   0 33992  30m 2584 S  0.0 12.3   0:06.60 mimedefang.pl
 1652 root      15   0  1560  580  464 S  0.0  0.2   0:04.45 vmware-guestd
 4205 root      16   0  8192 2216 1796 S  1.3  0.9   0:03.70 sshd
 8290 root      17   0  2784  920  748 S  0.7  0.4   0:03.51 top
 1295 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:02.48 kjournald
 1831 root      15   0  2716  596  500 S  0.3  0.2   0:02.37 syslogd
 4456 defang    15   0  4768 1088  840 S  0.3  0.4   0:02.37
mimedefang-mult
 2657 root      15   0  5140 1492 1196 S  0.0  0.6   0:02.13 bash
  200 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.98 kjournald
 2727 root      15   0  5288 1460 1180 S  0.0  0.6   0:01.72 bash
    1 root      16   0  3308  552  472 S  0.0  0.2   0:01.56 init
 4212 root      17   0  6392 1456 1180 S  0.0  0.6   0:01.07 bash
 8657 root      17   0  2400  924  748 S  0.7  0.4   0:01.03 top

Perl = 5.8.5
SpamAssassin=3.1.2
MimeDefang=2.56

Thanks
Gary
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