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

[Rich, WhidbeyNet NOC]

> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:58:07AM -0800, Rich, WhidbeyNet NOC wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> How many sessions is that?

About 50,000 sessions.

> > 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. 
> 
> Um. Surely you can simply say
> 
>     log-facility: local0
> 
> in tpop3d.conf, and
> 
>     local0.err      /var/log/tpop3d
> 
> in /etc/syslog.conf, and stop any other local0.* error
> messages going anywhere?
> 

Good point, I think we'll try that. Although some "errors" are logged as
".info",

[ID 702911 mail.info] connections_post_select: connection_read: client
[6]209.166.64.4/mail1: closed connection
[ID 702911 mail.info] net_loop: timed out client [6]209.166.65.23/mail1

They're not all that important.

Thanks again,

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