Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] RAM Usage

[Udo L. <ul...@ab...>]

Hi,
i have also a memory leak on one DL 1.2.13 (act as an mailserver).
In my case saslauthd need to be restarted (once, better twice a week) 
and all works fine.

Best regards

Udo

Matthew Hattersley schrieb:
> Hi Guys,
>
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> We have around 150 DL boxes out in the wild now, and there may be a
> small problem that keeps happening. Under heavy load the boxes will
> start running low on RAM, at which point we get malloc errors for some
> daemons running on the unit. First thing to go is usual snmpd, which
> isn't a major issue. But further down the line we start loosing things
> like ssh, and in some cases even more crtical processes. 
>
> Ok I know this is pretty much the problem with running things from RAM
> disks, but is there a way to ensure that network/tcp connections cannot
> steal all the RAM etc and effectively reserve RAM for the OS?
>
> BTW we aren't being tight with the RAM, most of these boxes have 512Mb
> or a 1GB, which should be able for effectively routing traffic and some
> traffic aggregation.
>
> I welcome any ideas on this front.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mat
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