How big is your autowhitelist DB getting? That's the only thing I can imagine that could be responsible. Particularly since you're forcing the userid to spamc...
C On 2/28/02 3:27 PM, "Jason Haar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running SA-2.1 under daemontools and am using softlimits (like ulimits) > to limit the amount of memory a process can use. > > It's really weird. When I started using 2.1 spamd, I had the memory limit > set to 7Mb. This worked - for a while. Then SA started crashing saying it > was out of memory - daemontools automatically restarts it - but it was still > out of memory. Running it from the command line said - it was out of memory. > So I upped it to 9Mb and it was happy again. > > Just now I notices spamd was swallowing quite a bit of CPU, and then I > noticed the PID was changing - i.e. it was crashing and restarting. Sure > enough, out of memory. I've now upped it to 10Mb and it's happy again. > > By out of memory I mean this is even before you've shoved a message via > spamc into it. > > This is really weird. I mean, it can't be happy running in 8M one day and 10 > the next? WTF!!! > > Any ideas? Unless SA alters itself automatically, this install hasn't > changed one bit throughout this process, and yet now it's acting differently > than it did a few weeks ago. > > > Oh yeah, RH7.2 and I'm running it as: > > #!/bin/sh > #/service/SpamAssassin/run > exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -a 10000000 /usr/bin/spamd -F 1 -L -x \ > -u spamc > /var/log/spamd.log 2>&1 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk