----- Original Message ----- From: "Potato Chip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <users@spamassassin.apache.org> Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 2:00 PM Subject: RE: Memory usage spikes ...
> I've been calling this the Email Scud problem. I've been hoping for a > patriot missle for a long time. I have noticed the same problem with > v2.63 and v2.64. I upgraded to v3.0 hoping that the problem would go > away but it's still there. > > It's happened to me about 3 times, where an email will be sent to my > server that specifically causes the problem. Killing the spamd process > causes the sending MTA to resend. It usually occurs with an email with a > large MIME attachment. In the last occurrence, the attachment was around > 20MB and was only a .TXT attachment. The sending MTA will resend its > Scud missle and I'll see the 250MB spamd process using up all available > CPU. > > Unfortunately, I didn't save the problem message and its attachment. > Hopefully, that sheds a bit of light on this common problem. > > jae > > -----Original Message----- > From: Morris Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 11:44 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Memory usage spikes ... > > > Yesterday I commented that I was seeing spamd children eating a lot of > memory, pushing the machine into swap. I've been keeping an eye on the > spamd children this morning. > > Overnight, all five children were using around 4 meg. This morning > sometime, one spamd child shot up to 250M: > > Mem: 513948K av, 504660K used, 9288K free, 0K shrd, 15532K > buff > Swap: 1052216K av, 263780K used, 788436K free 68408K > cached > > PID PPID USER SIZE STAT %CPU %MEM COMMAND > 1537 15624 root 250M S 0.0 44.5 spamd child > > 25394 15624 root 40056 S 0.0 6.1 spamd child > > 1432 15624 root 38932 S 0.0 6.0 spamd child > > 1241 15624 root 38768 S 0.0 6.0 spamd child > > 1754 15624 root 39308 S 0.0 6.0 spamd child I've had the same problem, but I hadn't isolated it to a certain type of email. v2.63 - John
