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. +1-301-869-4449 x806

[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

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: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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