On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Cheryl L. Southard wrote: > 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.
Have a look at the QueueLA and RefuseLA options for sendmail to slow it down when the load gets high. You could also look at splitting the rsync process into several seperate jobs to keep memory usage down. -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ihug, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET comprehensive development tool, built to increase your productivity. Try a free online hosted session at: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr0003en _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
