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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Michael W Cocke wrote:
Thanks!
Mike-
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:19:27 -0800, you wrote:
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.
sure, but the freed space should be reused for new allocations.
So
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,
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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
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 mo
