Well, a weekend update: Nothing has changed here. I removed EVERYTHING (except for local.cf) from /etc/mail/spamassassin, and still it chews as much memory as it could get. I limited the number of childs to five (removed the -m switch in the startup script), and nothing changed. The only "improvement" was that instead of 20 processes claiming all the memory, there were only five trying to freeze my box... But the oldest one still is a big memory grabber: It reached up to 133 MB, and NEVER got any lower, it just keeps grabbing and grabbing memory... Seems pretty much strange to me... I will try upgrading my PERL distrib to the lastest, and then reinstall, because nothing gives me any hints, not even running spamd in debug mode... I insist, I have another four servers with identical configs, same perl distro, same OS, same sendmail and spamassmilter versions, and only in this one thing gone really bad, the other four seem even a little bit faster after the upgrade... I NEVER ran BigEvil, here in Argentina, it doesn't seem necessary to me...
Luis On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 15:23:23 -0700, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a similar situation, and I have removed all my rule sets. Here is > the output from top > > top - 00:35:45 up 1 day, 14:45, 2 users, load average: 2.45, 2.40, 2.48 > Tasks: 158 total, 3 running, 154 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie > Cpu(s): 1.0% us, 1.6% sy, 97.4% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, > 0.0% si > Mem: 1036832k total, 800524k used, 236308k free, 141016k buffers > Swap: 265060k total, 66896k used, 198164k free, 110796k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 7070 spam 23 0 26188 21m 5960 S 0.0 2.2 0:03.94 spamd > 7073 spam 20 0 26188 21m 5960 S 0.0 2.2 0:00.02 spamd > 7074 spam 20 0 26188 21m 5960 S 0.0 2.2 0:00.01 spamd > 7075 spam 22 0 26188 21m 5960 S 0.0 2.2 0:00.01 spamd > 7076 spam 23 0 26188 21m 5960 S 0.0 2.2 0:00.01 spamd > 7077 spam 23 0 26188 21m 5960 S 0.0 2.2 0:00.02 spamd > > top - 08:37:17 up 1 day, 22:47, 2 users, load average: 2.45, 2.24, 2.15 > Tasks: 146 total, 4 running, 141 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie > Cpu(s): 19.3% us, 2.6% sy, 77.3% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, > 0.8% si > Mem: 1036832k total, 971724k used, 65108k free, 148300k buffers > Swap: 265060k total, 72188k used, 192872k free, 102508k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 7076 spam 18 0 35468 30m 5960 R 37.6 3.0 1:36.58 spamd > 7070 spam 23 0 26188 21m 5960 S 0.0 2.2 0:03.94 spamd > 7073 spam 18 0 31612 27m 5960 S 0.0 2.7 5:03.49 spamd > 7074 spam 19 0 39732 35m 5960 S 0.0 3.5 1:40.51 spamd > 7075 spam 19 0 35548 30m 5960 S 0.0 3.0 1:29.94 spamd > 7077 spam 19 0 30204 25m 5960 S 0.0 2.6 1:15.38 spamd > > top - 10:25:33 up 2 days, 35 min, 2 users, load average: 2.89, 2.61, 2.55 > Tasks: 162 total, 4 running, 157 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie > Cpu(s): 20.1% us, 6.2% sy, 73.7% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, > 0.0% si > Mem: 1036832k total, 981864k used, 54968k free, 144744k buffers > Swap: 265060k total, 81236k used, 183824k free, 114088k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 7070 spam 23 0 26188 21m 5960 S 0.0 2.1 0:03.94 spamd > 7073 spam 19 0 31612 27m 5960 S 0.0 2.7 5:47.55 spamd > 7074 spam 19 0 39732 33m 5960 S 0.0 3.4 2:19.69 spamd > 7075 spam 19 0 35548 30m 5960 S 0.0 3.0 2:09.12 spamd > 7076 spam 18 0 38380 33m 5960 S 0.0 3.3 2:36.16 spamd > 7077 spam 19 0 32556 28m 5960 S 0.0 2.8 1:49.98 spamd > > top - 13:39:35 up 2 days, 3:49, 1 user, load average: 2.01, 2.15, 2.18 > Tasks: 155 total, 3 running, 151 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie > Cpu(s): 1.0% us, 0.7% sy, 98.2% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, > 0.2% si > Mem: 1036832k total, 987092k used, 49740k free, 142316k buffers > Swap: 265060k total, 81512k used, 183548k free, 97608k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 7070 spam 23 0 26188 21m 5960 S 0.0 2.1 0:03.94 spamd > 7073 spam 19 0 32424 27m 5960 S 0.0 2.8 6:34.85 spamd > 7074 spam 23 0 39732 34m 5960 S 0.0 3.4 3:11.99 spamd > 7075 spam 22 0 35548 30m 5960 S 0.0 3.1 3:00.87 spamd > 7076 spam 21 0 38380 33m 5960 S 0.0 3.3 3:16.20 spamd > 7077 spam 18 0 32556 28m 5960 S 0.0 2.8 2:44.93 spamd > > -- > ---- > Jim Gifford > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ------------------------------------------------- GNU-GPL: "May The Source Be With You... -------------------------------------------------
