[tpop3d-discuss] Memory leak?

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:57:50PM -0700, Marc Lewis wrote:
> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:20:07PM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
    [...]
> > I may add an option to have it restart itself every so
> > often.
> 
> After looking through the code a bit more, I can see the hesitation in
> making this an option.  Would require major reworking.

Well, allowing it to restart itself automatically isn't
too bad, as long as you're happy to allow it to drop any
pre-authenticated connections, as happens when you send
the daemon a SIGHUP. It would be nicer not to have to do
this, which means either

    1.  waiting until there are no pending connections,
        then restarting; or

    2.  closing the listening socket, then forking a new
        process to take it over, and exiting once all of
        the current connections are closed.

Observe that the second of these doesn't help with the
case where an inbound connection is in the listen queue
but hasn't been accepted yet.

Of course, you could just put 

    kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/tpop3d.pid)

in crontab to run every twelve hours or something. Until
I've got to the bottom of the memory leak problem, this is
probably the simplest workaround.

    [...]
> > Which version of the OpenLDAP libraries are you using?
> 
> v2.0.21-1 from RedHat 7.2 installation, then updates.

Cheers. I'll see if I can reproduce anything with my test
OpenLDAP installation.

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