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


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