Re: mem usage queue manager

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 Victor.Duchovni@MorganStanley.com wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Mipam wrote:
>
> > On some bussy mailsystems running postfix of course, I noticed that the
> > memory usage of the queue manager increased a little.
> > Upon reboot and staring of postfix the size is just a few meg, but
> > after uptime of a month and longer i noticed the qmgr uses 8172K of
> > memory. Now I am not saying this is a problem or anything, instead
> > everything runs fine and performs very well. I just wonder about it and
> > whether it will increase more over time.
> > Bye,
> >
>
> The queue manager in Postfix 2.x does not have known memory leaks. Do you
> see the memory use growing slowly and steadily, or make increasingly less
> frequent jumps between ever longer periods of constant memory use?
>
> The queue manager in Postfix 1.x does virtual_maps lookups, and if there
> are memory leaks in the database interface they could result in a leaky
> Postfix 1.x queue manager.
>
> The key question is whether you have slow linear growth or increasingly
> infrequent jumps.

I've got to check that out, I'll come back with the results.
Bye,

Mipam.