Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-12 Thread Martin Hepworth
Bill wouldn't like to comment on the changes, I just see people see get positive results from it (ie lowest memory usage). I don't use spamd to invoke spamassassin myself so haven't suffered from the problem. (I use MailScanner) -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel

Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-12 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:43:33AM +, Martin Hepworth wrote: > There's a bugilla reference to this and a patch for the patch there as well > http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3983 That patch is about a change in how the spamd processes are used, right? Instead of using all --m

Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-12 Thread Michael Parker
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:19:38AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > Since only one child process is so large and that they are all stared > at the same time (e.g. processed the same number of requests) I would > think its memory usage would be related to a specific message that > spamd process handl

Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-12 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:57:02PM -0800, Loren Wilton wrote: > BTW, this probably means that you have a really big whitelist or bayes db, > and possibly expire isn't working as you think it is. Might be worth > checking on that. I'm not using bayes (AFAIK ;), as I'm doing site-wide filtering wit

Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-12 Thread Martin Hepworth
Bill gmame's search was screwed yesterday. will try agian today and bookmark the thing ;-) ok the search term on gmame you need is "low memory" There's a bugilla reference to this and a patch for the patch there as well http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3983 -- Martin Hepworth Snr

Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-12 Thread Loren Wilton
> By the way, I set --max-conn-per-child=20 (yes, very low) and that > seems to have solved the problem with a given spamd process eating > memory. > > But I'm still seeing a lot of: > > Jan 11 10:03:57 mardy spamd[13158]: server hit by SIGCHLD > Is that a result of the child process being kill

Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-11 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:14:03AM +, Martin Hepworth wrote: > Bill > > > Alot of people seem to be noticed this, there is a small memory patch > floating around the email list archives you could try. Do you remember any good keywords subject or author to help in locating the patch? I'm no

Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-11 Thread Wolfgang . Fuertbauer
Hi! same problem here; as workaround I restart spamd every day > Take a look for massive AWL or Bayes db files in the filesystem -- > that has been reported to cause it in the past... of course; 400+ users -rw---1 exim exim 31 Jan 11 15:38 bayes.lock -rw---1 exim

Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-11 Thread Martin Hepworth
Bill Alot of people seem to be noticed this, there is a small memory patch floating around the email list archives you could try. It missed the 3.02 cut off, but apparently works fine with this version. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Bill Mo

Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-11 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Take a look for massive AWL or Bayes db files in the filesystem -- that has been reported to cause it in the past... - --j. Ryan Castellucci writes: > I've been seeing the same thing on RedHat 9, with spamassassin 3.0.2. > Anyone have a fix? > > On

Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-11 Thread Ryan Castellucci
I've been seeing the same thing on RedHat 9, with spamassassin 3.0.2. Anyone have a fix? On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:24:27 -0800, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's interesting how one process (of all started at the same time) is > using so much memory. > > # ps aux | egrep '(spamd|USER)'

Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-10 Thread Bill Moseley
It's interesting how one process (of all started at the same time) is using so much memory. # ps aux | egrep '(spamd|USER)' USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 10437 0.0 3.4 92440 17896 ? S10:33 0:04 /usr/sbin/spamd --max-children 5 -d --p

spamd eating memory

2005-01-10 Thread Bill Moseley
I've got a low traffic mail server running Debian Woody with backports for SA and Exim: Exim: 4.34-7.amwoody.1 0 SA: 3.0.2-1 Perl: 5.6.1 Again, low traffic. I rotate daily, so: $ wc -l /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1 2467 /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1 I just upgraded a few days ago to 3.0 f