Hiya, Got a bit of a problem.
Have this setup ; Internet --> avmx01 server (Postfix + ClamAV + Amavisd) --> SA server (Sendmail + SA 3.0.1) --> Remote MTA The avmx01 server was upgraded to a much more powerful machine 2 days ago. I don't think that should be causing this problem though. The SA server is sometimes running out of memory (hitting swap) as the spamd process is sometimes not enforcing the maximum children setting. Twice overnight the box was hitting swap so hard it wasn't really doing anything useful - each time a ; ps ax | grep spamd | wc -l Showed well over 200 processes. It just did it again when I came into work, though this time I caught it when it was up to 189 processes. I'm starting it via this ; /usr/local/bin/spamd --max-children=25 --listen-ip=x.x.x.x --allowed-ips=y.y.y.y,z.z.z.z -d -u nobody It is called via spamass-milter. The server is running FreeBSD 4.9 with 2.5gb RAM with 2 x 1.1ghz P3's & 10k RPM SCSI. Any ideas on what I can look for? After restarting spamd everything runs perfect, as I wrote this it is sticking to 26 spamd processes (normal) and it is holding it to that. But it won't stay that away forever based on last night. At the moment I'll probably put something in cron to kill and restart spamd every couple of hours. Gav
