Re: [SAtalk] Continuing saga of runaway spamd

2004-01-07 Thread Michael H. Collins
I just added a gig of swap and all my probs went away. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a followup to my previous mail about a problem we are seeing at $DAYJOB and it is getting serious. After we upgraded to SA 2.61 as was suggested by this list we had a mail-machine crash again when spamd expan

Re: [SAtalk] Continuing saga of runaway spamd

2004-01-07 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that Eric W. Bates may have mentioned these words: We experienced a similar problem on FreeBSD. The problem was addressed when we upgraded perl from 5.5 to 5.8. As a workaround until we managed to upgrade we launched spamd under the control of Dan Bernstein's Daemontools which can

Re: [SAtalk] Continuing saga of runaway spamd

2004-01-07 Thread Eric W. Bates
We experienced a similar problem on FreeBSD. The problem was addressed when we upgraded perl from 5.5 to 5.8. As a workaround until we managed to upgrade we launched spamd under the control of Dan Bernstein's Daemontools which can be configured to automatically impose limits and restart misbeh

RE: [SAtalk] Continuing saga of runaway spamd

2004-01-07 Thread Tom Meunier
Interesting to me mostly because spamc/spamd by default won't even look at a 1.2mb email. I'm interested in how/where that happened. -tom > -Original Message- > > After we upgraded to SA 2.61 as was suggested by this list we > had a mail-machine crash again when spamd expanded beyond

Re: [SAtalk] Continuing saga of runaway spamd

2004-01-07 Thread Dirk Kuypers
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:52, David B Funk wrote: Hi, I was seeing the same behaviour on a SuSE 8.2 machine just before christmas. Most Emails got scanned like they should, only every few hours there has been a spamd process hanging eating up more and more memory, untill it grew so big t

Re: [SAtalk] Continuing saga of runaway spamd

2004-01-07 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is a followup to my previous mail about a problem we are seeing at > $DAYJOB and it is getting serious. > > After we upgraded to SA 2.61 as was suggested by this list we had a > mail-machine crash again when spamd expanded beyond all available > m

RE: [SAtalk] Continuing saga of runaway spamd

2004-01-07 Thread Gary Funck
> but was the advocate for adding spamassassin, so this matters to me :-) > > I did suggest yesterday disabling bayesian and auto learning, but I > could not see any evidence of a spamassassin bayes database anywhere. > We are running spamd from exim, if that has any import, and all > running on

[SAtalk] Continuing saga of runaway spamd

2004-01-06 Thread jpff
This is a followup to my previous mail about a problem we are seeing at $DAYJOB and it is getting serious. After we upgraded to SA 2.61 as was suggested by this list we had a mail-machine crash again when spamd expanded beyond all available memory. As far as we can tell it was looking at a 1.2Mb