On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Gary Funck wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mike Burger > > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 2:47 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [SAtalk] Suddenly, spamd runs me out of memory (physical and > > swap) > > > > > > I've been running spamd/spamc from the SA 2.54 set quite happily > > for quite > > some time. > > > > Today, however, spamd, even with no mail actively being scanned, and from > > startup, just runs up the system load and chews through memory like it's > > going out of style. I have a 2GB swap partition, which spamd > > went through > > within less than half an hour of being up. > > > > This sounds amazingly similar to the failure mode that I've encountered > running mass-checks. Would you happen to be running on Redhat 9.0 Linux? Do > you run up2date or some other program that brings in updates automatically? > I've been kind of wondering if perhaps some recent system update (a perl > package, or a system call routine) caused some new problem. Based upon the > failure mode that I was seeing, it looked > as if SA was using up kernel memory resources in a big way.
Nope...RH 7.1. Up2date is run manually, when needed. The only Perl update was Digest::MD5, which was changed/updated when I upgraded to Razor 2.36/Razor SDK 2.03. Thing about that, though, is that when I updated that Perl module, the system ran fine for nearly a day before it started chewing up resources like it did. I suspected that it could have been the perl module update, but wasn't sure. > Theo recommended running 'strace -pid <pid>' on the demon when it starts > going into the mode where it uses up all of system memory. BTW, I'm running > version 2.60(cvs), so if these various versions are sharing the same failure > mode, it is likely not due to SA directly. Quite likely the case. The problem ist that SA goes into that resource sucking mode the moment it is started. I guess I can try the strace. Oy. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a message of: subscribe ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
