On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:08:40AM +1000, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> BUT, as I said, I haven't looked, but if there is anything in the message
> which is loaded into memory by qmail-scanner (eg, the entire message for me,
> or perhaps just the to/from list) then this might be enough for qmail-scanner
> to die due to Out of Memory, and produce a tempfail, leaving behind the
> temporary files (if they have been created yet) as well as the working files.
> So, is it possible to ask perl "Give me a string/array of this size if you
> have enough memory, if not, then please tell me so I can do something else".
> 

Oh yes - you're right there. In that case Q-S would crash due to an
out-of-memory error and tempfail wouldn't get called - so there would be
debris... I call that a feature ;-)

[The documentation does suggest that everyone runs 
"qmail-scanner-queue.pl -z" every few days to clean out such messes... But
typically they don't happen]

-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar

Information Security Manager
Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417

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