On another paw I note that most family tools are not left running
24x7. If this is his case then a large portion of his 250 messages
may be coming in right after he boots. If he is setup to spawn
too many spamds then he could experience a memory crisis.
{^_-}
From: "JamesDR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> He did say what his mail average is:
> "This is a small-scale family server receiving only about 250
> emails a day."
> You may want to read the entire message next time.
> Thanks,
> JamesDR
>
> Loren Wilton wrote:
> >>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.
> >
> >
> > You don't say what your normal mail rate is, nor what rules you are
running.
> >
> > 2.64 didn't have some of the memory problems that were really bad on the
> > initial 3.0 release, and are now largely corrected. Generally all that
> > would cause the sort of thing you are seeing would be either running too
> > many spamd children for the available memory, or using some of the
really
> > big addon rule sets like BigEvil.
> >
> > How many spamd children do you have running? You should probably limit
to
> > 3-5 at most with 512M, at a guess. Are you using BigEvil? If so, get
rid
> > of it and use the surbl patch instead.
> >
> > You are clearly getting into swap, and this implies that you have
overflowed
> > memory.
> >
> > Loren
> >
> >
>
