Developers of Sympa

[Peter Nixon <address@concealed>]

On Mon September 22 2003 20:11, Sergiy Zhuk wrote:
> hi
>
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Olivier Salaun - CRU wrote:
> > We are aware of memory leaks in Sympa processes aparently linked to the
> > number of lists and/or subscribers.
>
> I've found an additional cause of intensive memory use - digests.
> The sympa process was dying for several hours in a raw growing up to
> allowed limit (512Mb) every time.
> Then I've discovered that it's trying to send a digest which was more than
> a Gigabyte in size (lots of pictures).
> It was trying to read the whole thing into memory.
> I've figured if sympa is doing it for every digest and is not freeing the
> memory after that, it would cause an excessive memory use.
> Another problem is sympa queue processing.
> You can only have one process (sympa.pl) processing the queue and that is
> definitely not enough in case you have high traffic volume lists.
> AFAIR sympa always sorts the queue by the list name, so it doesn't give
> other lists a chance if you have a 1,000 messages waiting for delivery for
> the same list.

Thanks for the heads up. I will check it out when I build a test rig.
Sounds like they are not serious issues though and should be fairly simple to 
fix..

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