HI All, Can anyone please offer me any suggestions on how I can stop spamd from hogging all the memory on my mail server and spiriling into memory-thrashing hell?
We are running spamd 2.43 with perl-5.8.0 on our Solaris 2.8 mail server. Every so often, another process on our mail server takes up a lot of memory. For example, we have a 72MB rsync job that runs every night. When this happens, my server starts swapping. Once the server starts swapping, the spamd processes almost completely fail to complete, and since more incoming e-mail arrives, it gets worse and worse until the server grinds to a halt. We've got more memory ordered which will help things, but is there any way to get spamc/spamd to use less resources? It seems that each instance of spamd/spamc takes up 16MB/3MB of memory on my solaris mail server. I have a linux mail server which only uses 13MB and 3MB for each spamd/spamc instance. We tried adding the "-m 3" flag to spamd, but it caused it to be unstable and crashed frequently. Is there anything else we can try? We also tried setting the sendmail "CONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE" to 3 to slow down incoming e-mails but that didn't work either. Thanks, Cheryl -- Cheryl Southard [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
