On the spamd 'sticking', it's strange that we're not seeing the same problems you are? It's possible we've loaded other packages not in the Ensim bundle that are helping to quiet spamd and ensure it's not on a runaway, but I've watched top & tail and only seen the MS applet really spiking every so often. spamd's up there, but not at the levels you're seeing. Have you added any other packages or software like MRTG, Mailman, MailWatch, etc., just to compare notes? How did you get to 4.0.1 FC1, from 3.5.XX straight up or did you do the in-box to 3.7.XX and then jump to 4.0.1? Or was there a 4.0.0 in there allowed to run for awhile before jumping to 4.0.1? Might help determine why our boxes are running without the CPU issues...
My spamd spike is not temporary unfortunately. It goes up and goes to almost to 100% when the whole server pretty much bogs down. I just got home and looked at top and here is what I got:
17:20:41 up 1 day, 2:31, 1 user, load average: 2.72, 1.83, 0.97
117 processes: 114 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 96.4% 0.0% 3.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Mem: 1031000k av, 919524k used, 111476k free, 0k shrd, 180876k buff
302996k active, 407324k inactive
Swap: 1052248k av, 11252k used, 1040996k free 252144k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
14362 root 16 0 21124 20M 12112 S 94.7 2.0 4:05 0 spamd
2038 root 19 0 18212 17M 18084 S 3.1 1.7 5:40 0 httpd13
11410 root 17 0 1488 1488 928 R 1.1 0.1 8:34 0 top
11332 root 16 0 2448 2440 2124 S 0.3 0.2 0:26 0 sshd
3401 root 15 0 1116 1116 532 S 0.1 0.1 0:33 0 exclog
1 root 16 0 508 508 448 S 0.0 0.0 0:09 0 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 keventd
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd/0
5 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 bdflush
4 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:10 0 kswapd
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kupdated
7 root 22 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mdrecoveryd
11 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 1:41 0 kjournald
I restarted spamassasin and tried top again and spamd is still at 92%. Restarting it again. Same thing.
Now I am running out of ideas. I will keep it off for a while.
We did the upgrade from 3.5xxx to 3.7 to 4.0 and then 4.0.1 all iwithin just a few hours span one after the other. Rene from Webscorpion did it for us. It is bizzare I know but I know also that I am not the only one. There are people with 4 or more servers with same config and are having problem only on some of the machines.
Thank you, Predrag
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