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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org> on 2005/01/11 02:29:03 UTC

Re: spamd eating memory

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Take a look for massive AWL or Bayes db files in the filesystem --
that has been reported to cause it in the past...

- --j.

Ryan Castellucci writes:
> I've been seeing the same thing on RedHat 9, with spamassassin 3.0.2.
> Anyone have a fix?
> 
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:24:27 -0800, Bill Moseley <mo...@hank.org> wrote:
> > It's interesting how one process (of all started at the same time) is
> > using so much memory.
> > 
> > # ps aux | egrep '(spamd|USER)'
> > USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> > root     10437  0.0  3.4 92440 17896 ?       S    10:33   0:04 /usr/sbin/spamd --max-children 5 -d --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid
> > root     10442  0.1 13.3 97776 69104 ?       S    10:33   0:13 spamd child
> > root     10443  2.3 48.0 433904 247716 ?     S    10:33   3:54 spamd child
> > root     10444  0.1 13.2 97228 68288 ?       S    10:33   0:12 spamd child
> > root     10445  0.1 13.4 98488 69168 ?       S    10:33   0:12 spamd child
> > root     10446  0.1 14.3 102836 74116 ?      S    10:33   0:15 spamd child
> > root     13067  0.0  0.0  1328  428 pts/6    R    13:20   0:00 egrep (spamd|USER)
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Bill Moseley
> > moseley@hank.org
> > 
> >
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