[Mimedefang] Odd startup behaviour

[David F. Skoll]

Albert E. Whale wrote:

> I have recompiled the 2.56 branch of mimedefang, as the upgrade to 2.58
> created an unstable result.  Now, even the 2.56 branch is an unstable
> beast.  The problem is exhibited on startup of mimedefang.  Without a
> load the 4 children (configured minimum) grow their RSS to 1.0G+ and
> consume 25% of the CPU equally.

???  What OS is this?  Anything special in your filter?  Are you using
lots and lots of SpamAssassin rulesets?  What happens if you do a system
call trace (strace, truss or ktrace, depending on your OS) on one of the
misbehaving slaves?

Regards,

David.