Jerry Lee wrote:
> Hi Tomasz,
>
> I tried to increase the softlimit to 1GB and it used up almost all of 
> the RAM (We have 7GB of RAM and 15GB of swap space). Therefore, I put it 
> back to 50MB. I will try to update to the latest version of 
> qmail-scanner. If that doesn't work, I will try your suggestion. I will 
> let you know the result. Thank you for the suggestions.
>   
That's highly unlikely - qmail-scanner doesn't do anything that would
allow itself to swallow Gigabytes of RAM. What is really taking up your
RAM? e.g. the following ps trick should show you the top RAM user

ps auxww|grep -v ^USER|awk '{print $5" "$0}'|sort -n


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Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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