Re: spamassassin gets stucked in

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

Also, remove additional rulesets, and run spamd with -D to see where
it's getting stuck...

--j.

Martin.Hepworth writes:
> Hi
> 
> Turn off the RBL's (or only use a couple). DNS checks can take along time.
> 
> Yes SA is very memory hungry......
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: N�her M�rton [mailto:ha1dfo@ha5kfu.hu]
> > Sent: 08 August 2007 11:20
> > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: spamassassin gets stucked in
> >
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I have upgraded to 3.2.2, checked out every network test, turned off
> > bayes, and still not better.
> > SA comsumes extremely lot of memory, and pushes the load to the sky, and
> > because it servers about 8000-10000 users , we are really scared, that
> > what shall we do. Shall we just use another spamfilters (crm114?), or
> > there is some little secret switch in SA that we haven't seen and that
> > would make it good.
> >
> > Hoping to find an answer:
> >
> > Marton Neher
> >
> >
> > Diego H. wrote:
> > > Try to upgrade to SA 3.2.2. there was a fix for messages that take too
> > long
> > > for scan.
> > >
> > >
> > > N�her M�rton wrote:
> > >
> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > >> Hash: SHA1
> > >>
> > >> Hi all!
> > >>
> > >> I would like to ask for your help about an sa problem.
> > >> Somethimes (random or when a lots of mails arrive) some spamd children
> > >> gets stucked in, what pushes up the load (~40), and enormously eats
> > memory
> > >> (~6-7Gb). It started about 1-2 weeks ago. This makes the complete mail
> > >> server unuseable, especially the exim4 smtp (gives timeout), the
> > dovecot
> > >> works fine, but slowly. It goes until i have to do a killall -9 spamd,
> > >> /etc/init.d/spamassassin start.
> > >> I use spamassassin 3.2.1 (comes with ubuntu server lts) and
> > >> exim4.
> > >>
> > >> my local.cf:
> > >>
> > >> trusted_networks 127. 212.###.###.### 212.###.###.### 212.###.###.###
> > >> lock_method flock
> > >> required_score           5.0
> > >> rewrite_header subject         *****SPAM*****
> > >> report_safe             2
> > >> use_bayes               1
> > >> bayes_auto_learn              1
> > >> skip_rbl_checks         0
> > >> use_razor2              0 #this was 1
> > >> use_dcc                 0 #this was 1
> > >> use_pyzor               1
> > >> ok_languages            en fr de hu
> > >> ok_locales              en
> > >>
> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
> > >>
> > >> iD8DBQFGsd3Na7+KaVg6oQIRAqGQAJ9En+du08XEbC//HrxpZvXeFaMSCgCgq+8Z
> > >> 6RM4uRkJ+e2UnqS1Ad3HpAU=
> > >> =IVG2
> > >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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