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From: "Jeremy T. Bouse" <jeremy+spf(_at_)undergrid(_dot_)net>
To: <spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 8:12 PM
Subject: [spf-discuss] Odd behavior from sendmail-milter-spf-1.30
Anyone running the 1.30 version of the the spf-milter and
noticing any odd performance problems with it? I've noticed on my
two MX servers in which it's running on that it is using a large amount
of shared memory and running the load average fairly higher than normal.
Actually on both MX servers the shared memory consumption is the largest
on the system, more so than my BIND9 server.
I'm wondering if there might not be a memory leak somewhere in
the code that has not been found as of yet.
The memory foot-print for sendmail-milter-spf-1.30 will start at around 9
MB; and load averages should not be noticably affected by it. In fact, the
only really load overhead is on startup; but once the daemon is running, it
consumes almost no resources (FreeBSD 4.9R-p3).
What version of perl are you using? I know earlier versions of perl 5.8 had
some memory leakage using threads. And on some OS'es, a glibc issue could
drive load averages to astronomical heights, using threads. But under normal
conditions, memory usage is rather minimal.
Regards,
- Mark
System Administrator Asarian-host.org
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