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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by lists <li...@efastfunding.com> on 2004/07/10 20:02:45 UTC
RE: Spamd eating memory till a system crash no ardchinve solutionsfound.
I tried doing -m option with 20,50,100 but I get to much mail I/B thru my
mail server for those limits. I have also tried to limited the number of
emails at the exim lvl but this causes way to many messages to get a 4xx
error and get delivered with to large of a delay. We get a large number of
automated mails from a lead souce that sends them in groups of about 100 at
a time but there all single messages.
Does spam 3.0 do better with this?
-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Ben Story [mailto:BStory@DOTFOODS.com]
-> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 12:54 PM
-> To: lists
-> Subject: Re: Spamd eating memory till a system crash no
-> ardchinve solutionsfound.
->
->
-> I had that issue when I would get hit by a piece of mail
-> addressed to 100s of users or a large spike of e-mail. I
-> stopped the issue by putting limits on how many spamd
-> processes can be spawned and by setting exim to queue mail
-> instead of trying to deliver immediately. This evens out
-> the flow and keeps spamd from getting out of hand. On Sat,
-> 2004-07-10 at 12:21, lists wrote:
->
RE: Spamd eating memory till a system crash no ardchinve solutionsfound.
Posted by lists <li...@efastfunding.com>.
-> I tried doing -m option with 20,50,100 but I get to much
-> mail I/B thru my mail server for those limits. I have also
-> tried to limited the number of emails at the exim lvl but
-> this causes way to many messages to get a 4xx error and get
-> delivered with to large of a delay. We get a large number
-> of automated mails from a lead souce that sends them in
-> groups of about 100 at a time but there all single messages.
->
-> Does spam 3.0 do better with this?
->
-> -> -----Original Message-----
-> -> From: Ben Story [mailto:BStory@DOTFOODS.com]
-> -> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 12:54 PM
-> -> To: lists
-> -> Subject: Re: Spamd eating memory till a system crash no
-> -> ardchinve solutionsfound.
-> ->
-> ->
-> -> I had that issue when I would get hit by a piece of mail
-> -> addressed to 100s of users or a large spike of e-mail. I
-> -> stopped the issue by putting limits on how many spamd
-> -> processes can be spawned and by setting exim to queue mail
-> -> instead of trying to deliver immediately. This evens out
-> -> the flow and keeps spamd from getting out of hand. On Sat,
-> -> 2004-07-10 at 12:21, lists wrote
Here is my top results after the antispam server has pulled out of
production for 3 days notice the spamd's still running
47 processes: 46 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 0.0% user 0.1% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 99.4%
idle
CPU1 states: 0.1% user 1.2% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 98.2%
idle
Mem: 771856k av, 764680k used, 7176k free, 0k shrd, 3216k
buff
614476k actv, 64712k in_d, 17008k in_c
Swap: 2096472k av, 1714012k used, 382460k free 2244k
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
21539 nobody 15 0 359M 118M 220 D 0.0 15.7 5:53 0 spamd
21666 nobody 15 0 359M 118M 220 D 0.0 15.7 5:52 0 spamd
21392 nobody 15 0 359M 116M 220 D 0.0 15.4 5:56 0 spamd
22010 nobody 15 0 408M 95M 224 D 0.0 12.6 5:37 0 spamd
20419 nobody 15 0 351M 91M 76 D 0.0 12.1 6:54 0 spamd
22009 nobody 15 0 517M 89M 212 D 0.0 11.8 5:47 0 spamd
Any ideas will be great but I do get 1000 - 6000 msgs per day in a bursty
style so limiting can cause exstream msg delay if it gets a temp fail (4xx)
which can cost us thousands. If I need more ram or a bugger box let me know
currently a dual mp2000 (1.6gig)