> From: "Christopher Meiklejohn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Thomas Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Spamd running after spamc exit > Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 15:24:56 -0400 > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) > > Are you using quotas on the system, I have noticed this problem when a user > is over quota and spamd is > trying to update the bayes files. > > I disbaled bayes to keep things like this from happening, becuase I coulnd't > find out why spamd was sticking > around eating memory.
No quotas, and no problems with disk space either. I should have mentioned that we are using site wide bayes files. These are local to the machine running spamd. > > -Chris > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 2:44 PM > Subject: [SAtalk] Spamd running after spamc exit > > > > We have had a couple of instances recently where our mail server became > > severely overloaded, with many spamd processes running. One was on the > > 21st when dorkslayers.com went down. The other was yesterday for no > > apparent reason. In each case, we had around 150 spamd processes > > running, with 2.5 GB of swap in use on a machine with 250 MB of memory! > > > > Each time I noticed that although there were around 150 spamd processes, > > there were only around 3 spamc processes. How is this possible? > > Could the spamc processes have timed out leaving the spamd processes > > running? Or could the mail have been processed and spamd is trying > > to do something else such as update the bayes database? > > > > Possibly related, in what way does spamc timeout? Does it require that > > the whole message be processed within the timeout, or just that some > > response has happened within the timeout time? What happens if spamc > > starts a spamd process and then times out? Is the spamd processes > > notified that it should quit, or is it just left running? Tom schulz Applied Dynamics Intl. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
