On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 09:30:39AM +0100, Claudio Clemens wrote: > Hi *, > > I hope this is not a FAQ. I was for a week or so in vacations, and in > the meantime, my mailbox got really full. When I fetched my mail, there > were more then 100 new mails. That is not so much, but the problem was > that my system began to swap like the hell. All RAM and SWAP were in > use. Response time was very very low. I looked with "top" what was > going on. CPU usage was at about 60%, but memory usage zu 110%. And > there was at least 30 instances of SA in memory, each one between 2 and > 8 Mb Ram. So there was too many SA in use. > > I'm using exim. I don't know if the problem is with SA (which allows so > many instances), or a MTA problem (which wants to send so many e-mails > localy at once, causing the problem).
Try using the -m option. You may need to upgrade to CVS for this to work well. I use -m 5, and I still have (much smaller) problems because of exim/procmail using lots of memory waiting. -- Duncan Findlay ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
