[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#688015: Bug#688015: memory leak

[Nico Golde]

Hi,
* Dominik <dominiks.mail at gmx.net> [2012-12-09 14:01]:
> I can confirm the issue reported by Erik.
> 
> My .fetchmailrc contains 8 blocks like this:
> 
> > server pop.example.com
> > proto pop3
> > user username
> > pass pw
> > mda /usr/bin/procmail
> > options ssl fetchall no keep
> 
> So I'm fetching the remote E-Mails via POP3 SSL on my server.
> 
> Die fetchmail process is running 24/7.
> After around 1 month the fetchmail process is at nearly 200MB memory usage.
> After around 2-3 month ~400MB.
> 
> When starting the fetchmail process there are ~6 MB memory allocated.
> 
> So the only thing I can say at the moment is that fetchmail is consuming more 
> memory the longer it runs, without a normal reason for this.
> I have also tested version 6.3.22-1 => it shows the same behavior.

Can you let fetchmail run with valgrind over a longer time? I'm really not 
sure how to reproduce this. I have fetchmail instances running 24/7 since 
months with around 6MB RAM being used in daemon mode.

Also what platform is this?

Cheers
Nico
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