[tpop3d-discuss] Apparent memory leak in 1.4.1pre4 under Solaris 8

[John P Connor]

At 23:00 18/03/2002, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 01:44:04PM +0000, John P Connor wrote:
> > I'm using a auth-perl under Solaris 8 with perl 5.6.1 and have a memory
> > leak. I initially thought it was my code, loosely based on the oraclevmail
>
>
>However, you may find that tpop3d/auth-perl leaks memory
>even with this installed. This is a consequence of perl's
>crummy garbage collection, and there's nothing tpop3d can
>do about it, except perhaps restart the embedded perl
>interpreter every so often. I'm not sure how serious a
>problem this is on production systems.

It does indeed, though not to the same standard as before :-) Thanks very 
much for the quick patch. We're now using tpop3d in a production 
environment, supporting about 150,000 users, FYI.

We have used qpopper for years, but I needed a decent server to which it 
was easy to add new authentication schemes to (we use Portal Infranet .. 
you wouldn't like it .. *I* don't like it ;-)) and had support for both 
maildir and mailbox, as we really needed to migrate to maildir so we can 
reliably use network attached storage.

Thanks for a really cool piece of software.


Cheers

John