Re: router eating sick amounts of core

[Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>]

On Mon, 25 Dec 1995, David S. Miller wrote:

> I recall reading that there are some memory problems when expanding
> large mailing lists.  This site runs about 70 or so majordomo lists,
> most have over 2,000 subscribers per list.  I was hoping that zmailer
> would make my site humm, but it's just eating a lot of ram and doing
> worse than sendmail ever did.

  Are you actually using Zmailer for list expansion? or is Majordomo 
doing the expansion?

> In the meantime, I imagine that the router is caching the smtp
> information as it expands new list postings.  Is there a way to config
> the router to not cache everything or to do less caching?

  The router caches no such info.  That is the job of the scheduler.

> Or do people suspect memory leakage?  I'm using a pretty trustworthy
> resolver library to link against, so I don't suspect that to be the
> problem.

  Memory leakage is always possible.

  Try linking with gnumalloc.  It could be that your malloc isn't very 
efficient.


Tom