At least in the case of qsmptd running under SpeedyCGI, each instance of qpsmtpd gobbles progressively more memory for each message it processes until it finally hits the softlimit setting. Does that also happen running under Pperl?
Jim James H. Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Sergeant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jim Winstead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Ask Bjørn Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 7:04 AM Subject: Re: sad logfiles > On 5 Sep 2003, at 17:52, Jim Winstead wrote: > > > i switched to using PPerl, which helped the load average, but it got > > stuck overnight and i had to kill a single qpsmtpd process to get > > things > > going again. i'll try to figure out what caused it to get stuck if it > > happens again. > > Make sure you run with --no-cleanup. qmsmtpd is clean enough to run > without that. > > Not sure if that will fix things. >