On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:51:48AM -0700, jdow wrote:
> As soon as you touch swap space you're dead. It's not unusual to see times
> for processes increase by 10 or even 100 times. (Although about 10 is most
> common.)
Happened to us already twice. Is seems to hit 'just by chance'.
I assume it to be a 'bunch of too many large mails' hitting
'complicated rules' (especially rules with 'variably long'
patterns like '.{1,30}'), and so bloating up *all* children of
spamd in parallel. Normally only one or two are bloated
and they 'die soon' being replaced by normally sized ones,
but extremely seldon *all* bloat, and the server goes down.
Stucki
