Marko Kobal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Today an large email caused a little bit of panic on my server. Load 
> juped to 5.0 and swap usage to 2GB ... after a while everything went to 
> normal by itself. Anyone has an simple explanation for it?
> 
> Log grep for the problematic amavis process:
> 
> May 31 14:45:37 cygnus amavis[3821]: (03821-04) ESMTP::10024 
> /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20060531T143829-03821: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> -> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: SIZE=44874865 from cygnus.arctur.si 
> ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cygnus.arctur.si [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, 
> port 10024) with ESMTP id 03821-04 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 31 May 
> 2006 14:45:37 +0200 (CEST)
> May 31 14:45:47 cygnus amavis[3821]: (03821-04) Checking: 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> May 31 14:46:13 cygnus amavis[3821]: (03821-04) TROUBLE in check_mail: 
> spam-wb-list FAILED: Out of memory during "large" request for 134221824 
> bytes, total sbrk() is 1150513152 bytes at /usr/local/sbin/amavisd line 
> 3553, <GEN5> line 1816041.
> May 31 14:46:13 cygnus amavis[3821]: (03821-04) PRESERVING EVIDENCE in 
> /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20060531T143829-03821
> May 31 14:46:13 cygnus postfix/smtp[2157]: F2798CB6C57: 
> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, orig_to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
> relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1], delay=257, status=deferred (host 
> 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing, id=03821-04, 
> spam-wb-list FAILED: Out of memory during "large" request for 134221824 
> bytes, total sbrk() is 1150513152 bytes at /usr/local/sbin/amavisd line 
> 3553, <GEN5> line 1816041. (in reply to end of DATA command))

Hi,

Did it really take 8 days for your message to reach the list?

Anyway, why are you spam-checking messages this big (44874865 bytes)? 
The error is self-explanatory, amavisd simply ran out of memory and told 
you so.

Per olof


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