memory usage [was: Forwarded [bogoutil]]

[Horst Scheuermann]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, David Relson wrote:

> Chris & Horst,
>
> Using bogoutil-0.15.8 and a 60mb wordlist.db, with command "bogoutil -m
> wordlist.db -k 16 -y 20031118 -a 123 -c 0" and with top running, I saw
> bogoutil get to 62mb ... Afterwards, wordlist.db was the same size
> (according to 'ls -l').
>
> While the above was running, I also have bogotune running (300mb virt,
> 150mb res) on my 384mb workstation.
>
> FWIW, I have bogofilter running on a mailserver with a P-133 and 64MB
> ram (and the above mentionned 60mb wordlist.db).  No troubles ...
>
> Bogofilter is very good about memory management.  AFAIK, there are _no_
> leaks in current versions of bogofilters and I can't think of any major
> leaks in recent versions.
>
> Questions:  have you been running vmstat and/or ps when the problem
> occurs?  What do they show?
>
>

set virtuell memory limit to 1GB, ran bogoutil and on another xterm prstat
(something like top). bogoutil memory increased up to 1GB (resident slways
60-80%) and then died with xmalloc error.



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