Re: [OT] Amavisd memory usage

2004-11-18 Thread Vivek Khera 
On Nov 17, 2004, at 11:07 AM, Michael W Cocke wrote:
Is this normal?  I would have expected them to be using the same
amount of memory, unless there's a leak somewhere.
Try not to confuse memory usage with memory leak.  It is a very common 
trap.

Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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[OT] Amavisd memory usage

2004-11-17 Thread Michael W Cocke 
This is off topic and I apologize, but I really couldn't think of a
better place to ask.  I'm using Postfix 2.1.5/Amavisd 2.1.2/SA 3.01,
and I just noticed something odd. Looking at top, the 5 copies of
amavisd (I pre-spawn 4) have different memory usage numbers, with the
oldest amavis using the most memory, and decreasing down to the newest
copy.

Is this normal?  I would have expected them to be using the same
amount of memory, unless there's a leak somewhere.

Mike-

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Re: [OT] Amavisd memory usage

2004-11-17 Thread Michael W Cocke 

Thanks!

Mike-


On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:19:27 -0800, you wrote:

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yep, it's normal; big/complex messages result in bigger allocations,
and those allocs don't get returned to the OS until the process
exits.

- --j.

Michael W Cocke writes:
 This is off topic and I apologize, but I really couldn't think of a
 better place to ask.  I'm using Postfix 2.1.5/Amavisd 2.1.2/SA 3.01,
 and I just noticed something odd. Looking at top, the 5 copies of
 amavisd (I pre-spawn 4) have different memory usage numbers, with the
 oldest amavis using the most memory, and decreasing down to the newest
 copy.
 
 Is this normal?  I would have expected them to be using the same
 amount of memory, unless there's a leak somewhere.
 
 Mike-
 
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