New reboot, same memory status after 20 minutes..

The ps shows that

iris:~ # ps ax | grep amav
 3840 ?        Ss     0:33 amavisd (master)
 4697 ?        S      0:23 amavisd (04697-04-2)
 5012 ?        S      0:16 amavisd (child)
5485 ? S 0:00 lmtp -n smtp-amavis -t unix -u -o lmtp_data_done_timeout 1200


And top says:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5012 vscan 15 0 438m 384m 29m S 0.0 38.1 0:16.15 amavisd
 4697 vscan     19   0  437m 383m  30m S  0.0 38.0   0:26.33 amavisd

So, apparently it's not the amavis master process that consumes memory, but a child and the (04697-04-2) tagged process.

Any ideas on this please?

Anders.


On 2006-01-09 09:06 Anders Norrbring wrote:
I've had problems lately with server hangs due to memory run-outs. Today I made a fresh reboot, and after 45 minutes, I see this when I run top.


  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 3165 vscan     15   0  438m 384m  29m S  0.0 38.1   0:15.87 amavisd
 2470 vscan     15   0  437m 383m  30m S  0.0 38.0   0:18.42 amavisd
 3440 wwwrun    15   0  8684 6464 3988 S  0.0  0.6   0:00.15 httpd2-prefork
  596 root      19   0  8936 6268 1716 S  0.0  0.6   0:01.35 java
  599 root      15   0  8936 6268 1716 S  0.0  0.6   0:00.01 java
  600 root      15   0  8936 6268 1716 S  0.0  0.6   0:00.14 java

amavis consuming 76% of the available memory (2GB) ?? How can I try to fix that?

My amavis reports this at startup.

Jan 9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: starting. amavisd at iris amavisd-new-20030616-p9, Unicode aware, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Perl version               5.008001
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module Amavis::Conf        1.15
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module Archive::Tar        0.23
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module Archive::Zip        1.14
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module Compress::Zlib      1.16
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module Convert::TNEF       0.17
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module Convert::UUlib      0.31
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module DB_File             1.806
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module MIME::Entity        5.404
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module MIME::Parser        5.406
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module MIME::Tools         5.411
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module Mail::Header        1.58
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module Mail::Internet      1.58
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module Mail::SpamAssassin  2.64
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module Net::Cmd            2.24
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module Net::DNS            0.49
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module Net::SMTP           2.26
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module Net::Server         0.87
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module Time::HiRes         1.51
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Module Unix::Syslog        0.98
Jan 9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Found myself: /usr/sbin/amavisd -c /etc/amavisd.conf
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Lookup::SQL code       NOT loaded
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Lookup::LDAP code      NOT loaded
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: AMCL-in protocol code  loaded
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: SMTP-in protocol code  loaded
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Courier-in protocol code  NOT loaded
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: ANTI-VIRUS code        loaded
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: ANTI-SPAM  code        loaded
Jan 9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Net::Server: 2006/01/09-09:04:44 Amavis (type Net::Server::PreForkSimple) starting! pid(3722) Jan 9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Net::Server: Binding to UNIX socket file /var/spool/amavis/amavisd.sock using SOCK_STREAM Jan 9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Net::Server: Binding to TCP port 10024 on host 127.0.0.1
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Net::Server: Setting gid to "101 101"
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Net::Server: Setting uid to "65"
Jan 9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Net::Server: Setting up serialization via flock
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Found $file       at /usr/bin/file
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Found $arc        at /usr/bin/arc
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Found $gzip       at /usr/bin/gzip
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Found $bzip2      at /usr/bin/bzip2
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Found $lzop       at /usr/bin/lzop
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Found $lha        at /usr/bin/lha
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Found $unarj      at /usr/bin/unarj
Jan 9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Found $uncompress at /usr/bin/uncompress
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: No $unfreeze,     not using it
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Found $unrar      at /usr/bin/unrar
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Found $zoo        at /usr/bin/zoo
Jan  9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Found $cpio       at /usr/bin/cpio
Jan 9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Found primary av scanner Eset NOD32 - Linux Server at /usr/sbin/nod32 Jan 9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Found primary av scanner Kaspersky Labs for Linux Servers at /opt/kav/bin/kavscanner Jan 9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: Found primary av scanner F-Secure Antivirus for Linux Servers at /usr/bin/fsav Jan 9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: SpamControl: initializing Mail::SpamAssassin Jan 9 09:04:44 iris amavisd[3722]: SpamControl: turning on SA auto-whitelisting (AWL)



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