On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:58:35AM -0800, Justin Mason wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Bill Polhemus writes: > > I am running SA 2.60 installed from the RPMs on Red Hat 9, on an AMD 2100+ > > based system with a half-gig of RAM. > > Could you post the output of "rpm -qa"? And you're not using any > hand-compiled components, it's all RPMs, right? > > BTW I'm running SpamAssassin 2.60 on a Red Hat 9 machine with an AMD > 2100+ as well. Only 256 megs of RAM here though ;) > > > Even worse, it makes hash out of the filesystems, and it takes several hard > > resets before I get rid of the "kernel panic" messages! > > !!! That's serious. > > Several hard resets being required, could be a sign that either (a) the > filesystems are *seriously* corrupt, or (b) there's some bad hardware -- > typically RAM in my experience. > > No user-level software like SpamAssassin can screw something up so badly > that several hard resets are required to fix it -- that's kernel-level > breakage ;) > > It could be that "sa-learn" is somehow imposing more load than the machine > usually gets.
And, speaking as someone who has fought hardware to a draw LotsAndLots of times, and won a few matches, I think it might be worth your while to see if the processor is being cooled properly. I have, in the past, seen machines (including some of mine and some at work) die of heat overload while doing a "make -j 8 buildworld" in FreeBSD. Multiple threads can cause the CPU to run really busy, which means that it gets _really_ _hot_, and if the fan isn't quite doing the job, or the cooling vents are clogged with dust (or, in one case, cat hair), Things Just Stop Dead. The multiple resets could very well correspond to the time the CPU requires to cool down to normal operating temperature again. -- Mike Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tired old sysadmin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
