> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duane Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:16 AM
> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: Loading Rules - Possible Memory Issue
>
>
> Don't know if someone can point me in a direction to look or not. I'm
> using SA through a third-party plugin for our MTA. This is running on
> FreeBSD 6.0 with SA v3.1.1 on Perl v5.8.7.
>
> As soon as I move aproximately 520K of rules into the
> directory with the
> local.cf and restart the plugin, messages start to pile up in
> the MTA's
> queue. If I move the rules out and restart the plugin,
> everything resumes
> to normal. The server has plenty of resources available to handle
> everything.
>
> I'm suspecting it's the plugin and how it forks child processes. It
> doesn't reuse the child processes. Once the child process is
> finished, it
> is eventually cleaned up.
>
> If I was able to get a plugin set in to use spamd, would I be
> seeing the
> same results?
IIRC, Um...520k of rules seems like an awful lot! Could be one rule, could be several. Use the law of halfs. Take half the rules, place them in, test. If it does bog the server down, cut that set in half, test. Continue half'ing until you find the culprit. Post the rule(s) here and we can try to help.
Chris Santerre
SysAdmin and SARE/URIBL ninja
http://www.uribl.com
http://www.rulesemporium.com
