hey, feel free to edit around that FAQ too, Matt ;) Right now I think that question really *is* the most FA'd Q.
--j. Matt Kettler writes: > Woot!! Thank you Justin and the rest of the Wiki crew for putting that up! > > I was getting tired of writing the "Are you using sa-blacklist.cf?" > email over, and over again. > > Justin Mason wrote: > > have you looked at > > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/OutOfMemoryProblems ? > > note especially the 'Heavyweight custom rules' section. > > > > --j. > > > > Evan Platt writes: > > > >> Ok, I've googled and obviously I'm not finding the right solution.. > >> But had to reinstall spamassassin on my os/x 10.4 box. > >> > >> Followed http://developer.apple.com/server/fighting_spam.html . > >> > >> But, my system is running out of memory, and it looks like Perl / > >> spamassassin is the cause . I've omitted everything but the Perl and > >> Spamassassin related entries: > >> > >> Load Avg: 1.97, 1.36, 0.78 CPU usage: 84.4% user, 15.6% sys, 0.0% > >> idle > >> SharedLibs: num = 106, resident = 3.54M code, 364K data, 780K LinkEdit > >> MemRegions: num = 4984, resident = 217M + 1.37M private, 236M shared > >> PhysMem: 44.7M wired, 307M active, 153M inactive, 506M used, 5.54M free > >> VM: 4.00G + 79.0M 50554(137) pageins, 65232(79) pageouts > >> > >> PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE > >> VSIZE > >> 448 spamc 0.0% 0:00.00 1 15 18 128K 268K- 396K > >> 27.7M > >> 447 procmail 0.0% 0:00.00 1 8 16 8K- 364K- 176K > >> 26.7M > >> 445 procmail 0.0% 0:00.02 1 15 16 8K- 364K- 412K > >> 26.7M > >> 416 perl 35.1% 0:10.60 1 10 391 30.4M 233M- 94.2M > >> 391M > >> 394 spamc 0.0% 0:00.00 1 15 18 88K 268K- 356K > >> 27.7M > >> 393 procmail 0.0% 0:00.00 1 8 16 8K 316K- 172K > >> 26.7M > >> 391 procmail 0.0% 0:00.02 1 15 16 8K 316K- 364K > >> 26.7M > >> 378 perl 10.1% 0:48.50 1 10 388 150M+ 207M- 217M+ > >> 391M > >> 377 perl 44.7% 1:18.63 1 10 388 26.3M 233M- 72.8M > >> 391M > >> 271 perl 0.0% 0:00.12 1 10 43 1.93M 284K 1.07M > >> 29.1M > >> 65 perl 0.0% 3:41.24 1 15 387 1.43M- 233M- 56.9M- > >> 391M > >> > >> > >> So what did I do wrong that's causing a Perl process to take up 391 megs? > >> > >> Obviously, I'm only guessing it's spamassassin related, but that's > >> the only thing I can think of using perl. And I see a few google > >> reference to spamassassin and perl. > >> > >> > >> Any other information I can provide, please let me know. > >> > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> Evan > >> > > > >
