Bots take down ejabberd server daemon over time #12
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https://code.google.com/archive/p/perl-net-jabber-bot/issues/32
Posted on Jul 2, 2013 by Quick Cat
I created a series of simple bots on my BSD server that will accept a message and send it to a variety of users in a given department. There's one bot for each department.
While these bots are running, I (being the admin) receive an announce message from ejabberd every few seconds saying that a process is consuming too much memory. Stop the bots and this disappears. Other than the messages, there's really no impact on functionality in the short term - everything works exactly as it should.
The real problem is that after running the bots for a period of a week or so, the ejabberd daemon process dies. Without the bots running, this does not happen. I assume that the two issues are related, but cannot say for certain. There is nothing in any of the logs to indicate what the problem may be.
The server is BSD unix 8 running ejabberd 2.1.9. The client is again BSD unix using Net::Jabber::Bot 2.1.5 on perl 5.12.4