On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 07:05:17PM +0200, Patrick von der Hagen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been using SpamAssassin 3.0.2 for quite some time (about three
> month) on my mailservers and so far I didn't notice any problems. Load
> and message-throughput have been quite constant.
>
> However, yesterday one of my servers went BANG, due to lack of memory.
> First I suspected Bind9, but when the memory dropped low again this
> afternoon I found that SpamAssassin consumed an extreme amount of memory.
> Right after launching spamd, each child uses about 30MB of memory, but
> after some time it they reach 200MB each, some still more.
I had the same happening on three different servers. In my case I had
4Gb of ram on each of them with two 3.2 CPU's on each server.
In the end I started using the following script (as a cron job) which
kills a spamd-child when it grows bigger than 2000000 bytes in memory:
ps flax | grep [s]pamd | \
awk '{if($7 > 2000000) print "kill " $3}' | /bin/sh
It seems to work.
Regards
Johann
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