On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 04:04:45PM +0200, Kandji Développeur wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using spamassassin for 2 weeks and it (*seems*) that it caused my system > to go down... > > The story : > linux RedHat 7.3 - kernel 2.4.18#3 on smp system (2xPII) > perl 5.6.1 > spamassassin version 2.55 > postfix 1.1.12-0.7 > > 1) The system had been running for 90 days. > 2) I installed spamassassin AND pop-before-smtp the same day > 3) The system goes down a first time, 6 days after the install. > Symptoms : system is pingable but everything else is down (ssh,smtp,apache, and so > on). console is frozen. > Nothing in any log file. > 4) After a reboot, system goes down another time 5 days after. > 5) I decided to just disable spamassassin > 6) System is up for 9 days and runs fine > > So, there are 3 options > 1) Something is wrong with this kernel > 2) Something is wrong with spamassassin > 3) Something is wrong with me (my way of using SA) > 4) Another crash is pending unrelated with SA
I am having the same problems... The reason for me is: Out of memory. Because it runs low on memory, it starts to use swap, gets even more slow then it already is and dies because of the memory and cpu usage (load avg 54). I think I tracked down what is causing this lately: I am mail flooded. I blame the SoBig worm for now, although I didn't check yet if that is it; but it must be, before I started to /dev/null it I already received one SoBig mail every 2 seconds! Without SA (and bayes) my firewall could handle that, but not anymore with spamd running :(. I am going to turn off spamassassin for a while I think. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
