Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:21:53 -0800 From: Andrew Moran <sneepre@mac.com> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SpamAssassin/Perl eating enormous amounts of memory? Message-ID: <19C0CCFC-CBD5-4822-8838-4F10C4792C23@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200903021439.55092.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <8806A36E-A839-481A-8E59-9F79DEB6B51A@me.com> <200903021439.55092.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On Mar 2, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Mel wrote: > > This is hard to debug, but I'd first toggle the PERL_MALLOC option > in the > configuration dialog for the perl port. If this doesn't solve the > problem, > then you'd have to get a ktrace to get some indication of what is > allocating > the memory. > Thank you for your suggestion. I'll try compiling Perl and it's dependencies without using PERL_MALLOC. > What's even weirder is that the process gets that far. Did you play > with > kern.maxdsiz loader tuneable? > If so, set it lower, so you can at least have the machine in a > usable state at > all times. 4G should be enough for any process and should give > enough time > for you to spot the leak and get a ktrace. > Nope, I haven't tweaked any kernel settings, just using the generic DEFAULT amd64 kernel. I've been way about tweaking settings because I don't fully understand what the 'correct' values for my setup are.
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