When I was debugging my LDAP code for DBMail, I compiled with ccmalloc: http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/biere/projects/ccmalloc/ and found it to be an excellent tool to help track down leaks.
Perhaps this should be a main goal of the 1.2 release... Aaron On 24 Feb 2003, Mark S Burgunder wrote: > Hi > > I have been using dbmail for a while now and have noticed that the > dbmail-imapd daemon seems to cause ever increasing memory usage. > This seems to happen when an IMAP client (in my case Evolution) is > connected to dbmail. > > To illustrate my point I have included the output of the free command > below: > Following ">>" are commands used to see this behavior. > > >>free -tm > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 501 492 9 0 30 48 > -/+ buffers/cache: 413 88 > Swap: 415 57 358 > Total: 917 549 367 > > >> killall dbmail-imapd > >> sleep 10 > >> free -tm > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 501 220 281 0 30 48 > -/+ buffers/cache: 140 361 > Swap: 415 54 361 > Total: 917 274 643 > > >>dbmail-imapd > >>free -tm > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 501 220 281 0 30 48 > -/+ buffers/cache: 140 361 > Swap: 415 54 361 > Total: 917 274 643 > > Now I am not sure what is using all that memory or if it is even > dbmail-imapd or maybe mysql, but since killing dbmail-imapd recovers the > memory I thought I raise it here. > > I am currently using dbmail 1.1, with mysql 3.23.54 on a redhat 8.0 > machine with 512 MB memory. > > Cheers > Mark S Burgunder > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > Dbmail@dbmail.org > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >
