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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On=
Behalf Of Davide Libenzi
Sent: 21 April 2008 21:54
To: xmail@xmailserver.org
Subject: [xmail] Re: XMailServer 1.25 Memory Footprint
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Vinny Wadding wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I have just installed XMail 1.25 and am not seeing some odd behaviour
> from it. It has taken me a while to try and track down what is
> happening, but here it is from what I can find.
>
> The new server is put live and works extremely well. After several
> hours, I get alerts saying that the system memory is exhausted. The
> memory footprint of XMail stays consistent at about 85mb - the rest of
> the system memory is all allocated to Buffers and Cache. There is
> virtually no swap space used, but a higher than expected load average on
> the system.
>
> I have taken the server offline so there is no traffic running to it.
> On a reboot the memory is released, but as soon XMail is restarted the
> Cache and Buffers climb back up and use all the memory again. That
> would eliminate an external influence on the server, and suggest
> something that is already on the XMail queue.
>
> I wiped all frozen spool from the server and restarted again. Same as
> above, the server released the memory but as soon as XMail started it
> started to grab all free memory for Cache and Buffers. This would
> suggest something that XMail is still trying to process?
>
> I trawled the spool queue and found several mails that appeared to be
> "stuck". It would appear that XMail would repeatedly try and process
> these, it would not as I could see spool files being created and removed
> as it goes thorough the motions. I have downloaded the spool queues
> and had a look through them offline, it would appear that the mails that
> are causing an issue on this server are coming from badly set up
> domains. I ran these domains through dnsstuff to see how they were set up=
..
>
> One of the domains was set up with no MX record and no A records. Even
> when manually submitting test mail for this domain, it would be accepted
> and then causes XMail to overreact.
> The rest of the domains I saw on the spool queue had minor anomalies,
> but when submitting manual mails via telnet for these domains it did not
> seem to cause the same reaction as the domain with no zone information.
>
> Obviously wiping the spool queue and rebuilding it from the source
> example resolves the issue and the behaviour returns to normal.
>
> Is this a known behaviour or "feature" in 1.25? Has anyone else seen
> this happening? Is there any way of being able to stop this behaviour?
I don't think so. The "eat all the server's memory" feature will not come
out till 1.26 :)
Which OS is that? Why don't you post one of your telnet transactions that
are creating problems? Talking about "some domains" and "some emails" is a
bit vague, since it does not allow anyone to replicate your box results.
This is my XMail BTW:
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- Davide
Damn, I was hoping I had missed an option in server.tab. ;-)
I only mentioned the memory usage above to clarify that I didn't look like =
it I was any leak in XMail itself. Obviously, this is a new server and at =
the moment only test traffic is running though it before it goes fully live=
.. When that happens the memory usage will, no doubt, go up accordingly.
The server it is running on is a Fedora8 X64 Server, with 4gb of memory. I=
have two perl filters running. A pre-smtp spf filter and an inbound/outb=
ound virus scan.
The telnet sessions to the server were just standard ones - no errors were =
reported at all.
The address I was seeing mails coming from and even when I submitted them d=
irectly were: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The mails were being sent to an account that does not exist on my server, s=
o would the process of trying to send the NDR have caused a loop given that=
their dns seemed to be corrupt at the time?
I have checked the domain again and it looks like they have fixed what ever=
issues there were having.
I have the reports from DNSstuff, I can send them direct to people or send =
to the list (not sure if I can mass mail attachments to people) if people a=
re interested in the errors from their domain.
I didn't mention the emails or domains specifically before, as it seemed ba=
d etiquette to just post it onto a forum and saying I was getting bad mails=
from them.
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