On 27.01.08 15:06, Sevrin Robstad wrote:
> I have used spamassassin over a year on my mail server, using James as
> pop/smtp and a homewritten mailet to connect to spamd through tcp.
> Yesterday I suddenly discovered load average peaks over 100 (!!!) on the
> server, and soon found this :
> 
> 22617 spamd     18   0 1830m 1.6g 2156 D    2 54.2   2:00.59 spamd
> 
> . Yea, one instance of spamd uses 1,6 *GIGABYTE* of memory. This forces my
> server to swap, which makes the server dead slow.

this can be caused by old perl or perl module with memory leaks. Try
upgrading those, if possible
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