Re: [SAtalk] running out of memory

2002-12-04 Thread Rich Puhek
Bob Apthorpe wrote: Hi, On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Rich Puhek wrote: I patched my spamd to check to see if the free memory is high enough before spawning a new process. Worked great, but I haven't found a nice protable way to do it (depends on /proc). If you can find a way to determine free RAM in S

Re: [SAtalk] running out of memory

2002-12-04 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Rich Puhek wrote: > I patched my spamd to check to see if the free memory is high enough > before spawning a new process. Worked great, but I haven't found a nice > protable way to do it (depends on /proc). If you can find a way to > determine free RAM in Solaris, that met

Re: [SAtalk] running out of memory

2002-12-04 Thread Rich Puhek
I patched my spamd to check to see if the free memory is high enough before spawning a new process. Worked great, but I haven't found a nice protable way to do it (depends on /proc). If you can find a way to determine free RAM in Solaris, that method should work great for you as well. --Rich

Re: [SAtalk] running out of memory

2002-12-03 Thread Simon Lyall
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Cheryl L. Southard wrote: > We are running spamd 2.43 with perl-5.8.0 on our Solaris 2.8 mail > server. Every so often, another process on our mail server takes up a lot > of memory. For example, we have a 72MB rsync job that runs every night. > When this happens, my server st

Re: [SAtalk] running out of memory

2002-12-03 Thread Justin Mason
Cheryl L. Southard said: > We tried adding the "-m 3" flag to spamd, but it caused it to be unstable > and crashed frequently. you could try the CVS version -- the -m bug is fixed there. Also, spamc/spamd can run across a network, another option is to farm out spamd work to another machine. Thi

[SAtalk] running out of memory

2002-12-03 Thread Cheryl L. Southard
HI All, Can anyone please offer me any suggestions on how I can stop spamd from hogging all the memory on my mail server and spiriling into memory-thrashing hell? We are running spamd 2.43 with perl-5.8.0 on our Solaris 2.8 mail server. Every so often, another process on our mail server takes up