>-----Original Message-----
>From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 7:54 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: spamd eating up CPU
>
>
>I've forgotten which version you said you are running, 2.63?
>
>There are some known problems with 2.6x that can cause, or
>seem to cause, things like this.
>
>1. You might have bigevil.cf. This will crash almost any
>machine these days. If so, get rid of it.
True, but since it's Ensim's deployment I have a sneaking
suspicion there's a loop going here, there are timeout settings
in the SA setup to limit and kill off those processes if he added
bigevil or another load-eating ruleset. But if you monkey with
SA directly on an Ensim Pro setup like this, it causes chaos all
round. Rather ignorant, but once you get the logic path it purrs
like a kitten. Most of using Ensim Pro are used to hand-installing
things like MailScanner and SA, so we look to modify the places
that make the most sense. Do that in this scenario - blammo.
>3. If you have too many spam children running you can run
>out of memory and start thrashing, which will kill the machine. The switch
>to limit the number of spam childred doesn't always seem to work in 2.63.
And worse, Ensim choses MailScanner for the priority in handling
things, thus SA gets shoved to the side and many of the stock .conf
files you'd adjust are simply ignored the way they deployed it. Again
it's ignorant, but workable in the long run.
>My suspicion is that you have more rules than you had before, spamd is
>taking longer, and between the processor speed, the number of
>spamds, the amount of memory, and the number of rules, you are running
>out of either memory or processor or both. If possible I'd try to cut
>down the number of spamd children.
>
> Loren
Didn't appear he has a memory runaway, just the process that won't
die. Overloaded rulesets are the next thing on the list to check, but
again since it's Ensim he's got to ensure that's set up completely
correct and then work back into checking his SA setup. Totally mindless,
but again in the long run it's very effective as a whole package.
David J. Duffner
VP Operations
NWC Corporation
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