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I have the same situation like the forum thread http://community.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=41052&p=162217&hilit=Mercury+memory+leak#p162217

My mercury process memory look normal. But global memory is become very big after one night.

When I restart mercury service , the global memory is become small.

Please look grab pictures in Google Picture Album: http://picasaweb.google.com/100932786916629098871/XAMPPBug?feat=directlink

OS: Windows XP SP3
XAMPP: 1.7.3
Mercury/32: 4.7
Mercury protocal modules: SMTP server (only use this)

Hi

You should understand at this point that Mercury Mail is an add-on in the form of an executable. The XAMPP developers only basically configured it to work. IF there is a memory leak - its embedded in the complied code. Changing some configuration value (parameter) may change how the code works - but it doesn't change the code - its still a workaround.

This topic here may help you -
http://community.pmail.com/forums/thread/22106.aspx

It contains a couple of straight forward ideas - including what I do for other reasons with XAMPP - using scheduled NET start and stop commands for the service.

Google is your friend

BTW - you don't HAVE to use Mercury - Mailservers are truly free-standing services. You might like Hmail - it is free, excellent and I have used it for years on XP and Server 2003 without a snag.

http://www.hmailserver.com/index.php?page=welcome

Good Luck

Thank you!
I will change to Hmail.