-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On December 5, 2015 6:43:55 AM EST, Sebastian Wolfgarten <sebast...@wolfgarten.com> wrote: >Any views on this? > >> Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: >> >> Von: Sebastian Wolfgarten <sebast...@wolfgarten.com> >> Datum: 25. Oktober 2015 um 11:55:42 MEZ >> An: po...@freebsd.org >> Betreff: Wtr: Memory leak or misconfiguration: Repeated allocation of >very large block >> >> To whom it may concern, >> >> in view of the discussion below may I suggest we remove the --with-gc >option from the Dovecot default options? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Kind regards >> Sebastian >> >>> Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: >>> >>> Von: Sebastian Wolfgarten <sebast...@wolfgarten.com ><mailto:sebast...@wolfgarten.com>> >>> Datum: 25. Oktober 2015 um 11:54:15 MEZ >>> An: Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi <mailto:t...@iki.fi>> >>> Kopie: dove...@dovecot.org <mailto:dove...@dovecot.org> >>> Betreff: Aw: Memory leak or misconfiguration: Repeated allocation of >very large block >>> >>> Hi Timo, >>> >>> alright, thanks I will recompile without gc - this is a standard >build option on FreeBSD but I will get the port maintainer to maybe >change this. >>> >>> Best regards >>> Sebastian >>> >>>> Am 24.10.2015 um 23:19 schrieb Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi ><mailto:t...@iki.fi>>: >>>> >>>> On 24 Oct 2015, at 14:59, Sebastian Wolfgarten ><sebast...@wolfgarten.com <mailto:sebast...@wolfgarten.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Dear all, >>>>> >>>>> I am using Dovecot 2.2.19 and I keep on getting the following >warnings in my mail.log file on FreeBSD 10: >>>>> >>>>> Oct 24 10:45:28 server1 dovecot: imap: Error: GC Warning: Repeated >allocation of very large block (appr. size 20480): >>>>> Oct 24 10:45:28 server1 dovecot: imap: Error: May lead to memory >leak and poor performance. >>>>> >>>>> I am wondering whether this is a configuration issue (i.e. a >mistake in my current config) or whether I am hitting a bug. What’s the >best way of figuring this one out? I tried increasing the verbosity of >the logs but it did not really provide me with further information. >>>> >>>> I guess you have configured Dovecot --with-gc? I guess it's >possible this is a bug, but it could just as well be a false alarm. In >general I don't recommend/support --with-gc option (and I should >probably just remove it altogether). The easiest and the most usable >way of finding memory leaks is to run with valgrind (which must be done >without-gc): >>>> >>>> service imap { >>>> executable = /usr/bin/valgrind -q --show-reachable=yes >--leak-check=full /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap >>>> } >>>> >>>> I'm not aware of any memory leaks right now. >>>> >>> >>
Have you filed a PR for the issue and/or reported this to the mail/dovecot2 maintainer? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQFHBAEBCgAxKhxKYXNvbiBVbm92aXRjaCA8amFzb24udW5vdml0Y2hAZ21haWwu Y29tPgUCVmcNXAAKCRBv1JwwFhyqbuCBB/0Yqw6Bhecsegznzx21WxZD+aJzd9k5 8OPUT3VbTtkK33BKgozZYFzEW0+9XSdU6vK+AreuBcWAtMb34F5W6H3uqfezv0by HvdftdIbUao1TYUhGlDL21k1PaNNPpfoDkqpTTV0eEAuM0p3ZZP3YWwWSXGzmvgu KGZKdx3SF/oy6Ut2DHYZIj5JQVBd20wZrFtKt6/orudn12eFEfWcB9fTqQ1ESJBf Q1Ue2zsPUQn7AcbP/UW99CdgV+BTM5rI7yZu8ohnJWj0rimSmWMWY5cqbzbBkTem hBRdJ+KMD0SpdOHw7zGMHKN+MHLWCBl+4ZmIUxOEPbolLoljAdvbTt4i =FN+e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
