On another paw I note that most family tools are not left running
24x7. If this is his case then a large portion of his 250 messages
may be coming in right after he boots. If he is setup to spawn
too many spamds then he could experience a memory crisis.
{^_-}
From: "JamesDR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
He did say what his mail average is:
"This is a small-scale family server receiving only about 250
emails a day."
You may want to read the entire message next time.
Thanks,
JamesDR
Loren Wilton wrote:
When the high LA hits, available RAM is essentially nil and the swap space
is about 85% used as we
On Oct 30, 2004, at 8:04 AM, John Fleming wrote:
When the high LA hits, available RAM is essentially nil and the swap
space
is about 85% used as well. When I've seen it hit 12 or so, it seemed
that
the HDD activity would never stop, and I've manually killed
spamassassin and
any spamd's.
On my s
> When the high LA hits, available RAM is essentially nil and the swap space
> is about 85% used as well. When I've seen it hit 12 or so, it seemed that
> the HDD activity would never stop, and I've manually killed spamassassin
and
> any spamd's.
You don't say what your normal mail rate is, nor w
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:04:36AM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
>
> This is on a recent Dell 400SC with 512 MB RAM and IDE drives. I suppose
> this might be a ridiculous question to some of you, but can you make an
> "experienced guess" as to whether the high load averages are due to my using
> net
I've followed the "memory-hog" threads of late, but as a rather
inexperienced Linux person, some of it is over my head. I'm using SA v2.64
with network tests and bayes. Everything is fine except that several times
a day the server seems overwhelmed with load averages 4-12. Here is a minor
exampl