We experienced a similar problem on FreeBSD. The problem was addressed when we upgraded perl from 5.5 to 5.8. As a workaround until we managed to upgrade we launched spamd under the control of Dan Bernstein's Daemontools which can be configured to automatically impose limits and restart misbehaving processes.

ymmv

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

This is a followup to my previous mail about a problem we are seeing at
$DAYJOB and it is getting serious.

After we upgraded to SA 2.61 as was suggested by this list we had a
mail-machine crash again when spamd expanded beyond all available
memory.  As far as we can tell it was looking at a 1.2Mb Micro$oft
Word e-mail, ham and sent to a very senior person.  Spamd is set to
limit children (to 10 I think) but we still had this runaway.  The
system manager is pushing for withdrawing spamassassin as we cannot
have the mail going catatonic.  I am not responsible for this system,
but was the advocate for adding spamassassin, so this matters to me :-)

I did suggest yesterday disabling bayesian and auto learning, but I
could not see any evidence of a spamassassin bayes database anywhere.
We are running spamd from exim, if that has any import, and all
running on Redhat GNU/Linux.

Help please!  I really do not want to return to 50 crap messages a day
in everyone's mail box.

==John ffitch


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