On Saturday 11 January 2003 00:26, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le ven 10/01/2003 � 19:59, Derrick 'dman' Hudson a �crit : > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:51:52PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > | Hi folks! > > | > > | I have some real trouble with my mail server. It is running on a > > | Pentium PRO 180 MHz box with 96 MB RAM, and last night the whole > > | thing almost died. My analysis of the situation makes me think > > | that I need to work a lot more on my config. > > Strange thing because exactely the same thing happened to me: I found > my mail server agonizing this morning, OOM-killing everything as its > 512M RAM + 512M swap were exhausted ... I just had to killall spamc > spamd to recover it.
Good to hear it is not just me... ;-) > I'm using the 2.20 version that came with woody. I tried installing > the version from unstable, but it complained about some unsatifiabled > dependencies (can't remember which by now). > Spamassassin seems to be a package needing frequent upgrades to > counter spam evolution. Yeah, this is a serious problem. Quite a lot of software gets outdated so fast, it is a problem to keep up. > Is there a mean to upgrade woody's sanely ? Quite a few Debian hackers have backported SA to Woody, I got mine with this in sources.list: deb http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/BACKPORTS stable main but Adrian Bunk has a bunch of packages too that it might be worthwhile to have a look at: deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free Best, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Astrophysicist/IT Consultant/Skeptic/Ski-orienteer/Orienteer/Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

