Hi Justin, If you can tell me what you want me to do when it is doing the problem, I'm happy to. It's easily reproduced here, I just need to wait a little while!
At the moment I'm restarting spamd on a semi regular basis which is getting to be a bit of a drama :) Cheers Gav On 11/11/04 3:48 PM, "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > there's been a few reports of this, but we're really mystified. > A test case would help, but it doesn't seem easily reproducable > for anyone :( > > - --j. > > Gavin Cato writes: >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Exmh CVS > > iD8DBQFBku8OMJF5cimLx9ARAguiAJ9NQkwIe1aZOYNSUe4quzcF/50uiACdHe2w > DcRRhlL14UGW7hFm3e07Pm4= > =mua/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
