When the high LA hits, available RAM is essentially nil and the swap space
is about 85% used as well. When I've seen it hit 12 or so, it seemed that
the HDD activity would never stop, and I've manually killed spamassassin and
any spamd's.
On my server, I ran into a scenario where a spamd process would get stuck and start eating up memory. I manually expired my bayes database, but it would still happen.
After trying a lot of things, I got rid of my old autowhitelist (single whitelist for all accounts on server). It had been around for a long time, and had grown to over 300MB. That solved the problem, so it must have either been corrupted in some way, or spamd was trying to do maintenance on it.
I don't know enough about how the whitelist file is maintained to know which was the case, but if you might want to try temporarily removing your whitelist to see if the problems go away. Just stop spamd, rename the whitelist, and start it up again.
-- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ Info on the Sniffter hand-held Network Tester: http://sniffter.com/
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