Thank you! Very much appreciated. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Haar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:08 AM Subject: Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]memory leak?
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:34:37AM +1000, Richie wrote: > > Sorry if this is the wrong list, but I just thought I should ask anyway. > > I'm running Qmail-scanner1.16 in a RH8.0/ 512MB/ i386 box, with Clamav and > > Spamassasin enabled. > > I had an OOM error in this box and wanted to ask everyone's opinion if this > > is related to any modules being called by Qmail-Scanner. Or if Perl 5.8.0 > > has any known memory leak issue. > > Well it highly unlikely be Q-S fault, as it's not a resident process - i.e. > memory is freed after every message is processed. > > I bet it's Clamav - you are running it within a ulimited environment - > right? :-) > > All the "long term" AV and SA programs should be run within limited resource > "jails" - specifically to stop such problems with OOM. > > e.g. here's my SA /service/SpamAssassin/run script (daemontools) > > > #!/bin/sh > export LANG=C > exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -a 30000000 /usr/bin/spamd -i 0.0.0.0 -A \ > -x -u spamc -m 50 -D > /var/log/spamd.log 2>&1 > > You can see that softlimit is forcing a max memory limit of 30M onto spamd. > If it has a memory leak, it can grow to 30M, then *it* gets an OOM error, > exits, and daemontool auto-restarts spamd again. > > Really simple - really clean - really clever :-) > > Thanks again to DJB for formalizing what should have been obvious to all of > us :-) > > -- > Cheers > > Jason Haar > Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. > Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 > PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: > Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! > No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server > http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Qmail-scanner-general mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
