Re: Memory issues have forced me back to 2.64

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

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jplesset writes:
> Hopefully . . .
> 
> I'm still hovering around 11 spamd processes.  it goes up to 15, drops 
> to 9, but seems to stay around 11 or so.

Guys -- we've heard this occasionally.

There should never be more than (--max-children) + 1 spamd processes
running; if anyone can catch a server doing otherwise, and figure out
*why*, we'd much appreciate it ;)

- --j.

> My server is much smaller than yours, and has only 256 megs of ram, so 
> it's kind of important to keep these things in line. . .
> 
> Sparc RAM is so expensive...
> 
> jay
> 
> Oban Lambie wrote:
> 
> >
> > Rick Macdougall wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Oban Lambie wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> The good news was that 3.01 was really, really good at tagging spam 
> >>> and I'd love to get back to it.  The bad news was that no matter 
> >>> what I did I could not stop the memory problems and the resulting 
> >>> lock-ups with 3.0 AND 3.01.  I've been reading and searching this 
> >>> group from the moment that I upgraded my mail server to 3.01 (about 
> >>> 10 days ago) and believe I've tried implementing every solution that 
> >>> has been offered for people that have posted about memory and load 
> >>> average problems.  Maybe I've missed something, maybe I'm not 
> >>> getting it, maybe someone can help.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Have you tried with --max-conn-per-child=20 on the spamd command line 
> >> ?  This will force the children to die after 20 connections and 
> >> respawn, clearing up any memory leaks and freeing the memory in use 
> >> by the child.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Rick
> >
> >
> > Ahhh, I didn't read closely enough and thought the -m switch was the 
> > same as --max-conn-per-child.  Doh.  Thanks Rick and Jay, I'm thinking 
> > this might work!
> >
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Re: Memory issues have forced me back to 2.64

[Gavin Cato <ga...@corp.nexon.com.au>]

> There should never be more than (--max-children) + 1 spamd processes
> running; if anyone can catch a server doing otherwise, and figure out
> *why*, we'd much appreciate it ;)

This was a bit of a coincidence. Read this email this morning, and then
30mins ago my SA server slowed to a absolute crawl. Managed to (VERY slowly)
get a ssh session going, the machine had completely run out of memory and
was hitting swap very heavily.

Doing a 'ps ax | grep spamd | wc -l' showed 58 processes! I have it
configured to run 25 normally (this is a busy server).

Sorry, I didn't have time to poke around - I had to reset the box to get
mail running again.

Running SA 3.0.1.

Gav