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> Message: 13
> From: Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+amavis@ijs.si>
> Organization: J. Stefan Institute
> To: amavis-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [AMaViS-user] Looping in malloc in /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 02:17:45 +0100
>
> Claude,
>
> > Please allow me to report a loop encountred in an amavisd process.
> > Linux <systen-name> 2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp #1 SMP
> > GNU/Linux = Fedora Core 3 with all available patches installed
> >
> > amavisd-new-2.2.0 (20041102)
> > sendmail 8.13.1
> > spamassassin-3.0.1-0.FC3
> >
> > Here is the stack backtrace as seen while attaching to the looping
> > process using gdb:
>
> Perl is doing malloc and such all the time. Regexp evaluation
> can also cause a highly dynamic memory usage.
> Such low-level debug info doesn't tell much about what the Perl
> program is doing. Using a Perl debugger might be more useful,
> but first of all it would be worth to narrow down the problem,
> e.g. see if it happens during SA call or during other amavisd
> processing.
Is it OK to start amavisd via a PERL call using the debugging flag ?
What to do when malloc is then looping ?
> The output 'amavis debug' or 'amavisd debug-sa'
> at the time when the situation occurs is more useful, at least
> during initial investigation.
Which interesting information will be output here, about the looping
malloc ?
> Mark
Thank you Mark !
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