[tpop3d-discuss] Tpop 1.4.2 memory leak?: fork_child: fork: Not enough space

[Rich, WhidbeyNet NOC]

Dear List,

We're now running 4 Sun servers with Tpop 1.4.2 using auth-passwd
authentication. Hopefully pam was the issue. I'll monitor them to see if
they're stable.

On a different topic, one machine had a syslog of 80mb for only 15 hours
worth of POP3 sessions. That's even after we modified Tpop to only log 3
things for each session. We've now re-modified Tpop, so it now only logs
errors, such as internal problems or authentication and connection
failures.

A very welcome feature would be a compile or config option to
"log-only-errors" for large sites. :) It'd also be nice if tpop3d didn't
log errors to console when it's running as a daemon (with no debug or
vebose) but that's not a big issue. 

We're still confident Tpop3d will be the best solution for us and it's
great to see such active development on it.

Thankfully,

Rich Sandberg
richs@whidbey.net
Network Administrator
WhidbeyNet Network Operations


-----Original Message-----
From: tpop3d-discuss-admin@lists.beasts.org
[mailto:tpop3d-discuss-admin@lists.beasts.org] On Behalf Of Chris
Lightfoot
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 3:22 PM
To: Ben Schumacher
Cc: Rich, WhidbeyNet NOC; tpop3d-discuss@lists.beasts.org
Subject: Re: [tpop3d-discuss] Tpop 1.4.2 memory leak?: fork_child: fork:
Not enough space


On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 04:08:34PM -0700, Ben Schumacher wrote:
> Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> |>Are the changes in the CVS (1.5x) stable and significant enough to 
> |>put in place of our 1.4.2?
> |
> | Not yet stable, I'm afraid, though I believe others are running it 
> | without trouble.
> 
> I have been using CVS for some time, and while it seems to work 
> perfectly with most MUAs, I still see periodic issues with Eudora. I 
> did mention that I was going to attach a GDB to the process while 
> checking mail with Eudora to help debug this, but I haven't had the 
> chance with the holidays and my work schedule.
> 
> I apologize for that. My schedule has been freeing up a little bit, so

> I'll go ahead and take some time over the weekend to run test this. 
> Hopefully, I'll have some useful results on Monday.

One thing to note -- I had misremembered that the patch
didn't go to the list -- a user pointed out that since I rewrote the IO
stuff, timeout handling was fubar'd. The current CVS version
incorporates that patch. This may help you.

-- 
``It is apparently not OK to remove A-bombs from Los Alamos property.''
  (Philip Greenspun, from `Travels with Samantha')

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