Anyone? :(
On 10/11/04 8:56 AM, "Gavin Cato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
