Re: [qmailtoaster] sa-learn is killing my server

[Jake Vickers]

Warren (mailing lists) wrote:

Jake Vickers wrote:

Warren (mailing lists) wrote:

sa-learn is using so much memory and CPU time that it is killing my server. I have renamed it for now, but would like to know if there is a way to limit the amount of memory or processes that it uses?

I had the same problem here. 67M a process eats up the ram quickly.

exec /usr/bin/spamd --max-children=5 -x -u vpopmail -s stderr 2>&1

Go to your run file for spamd (/var/qmail/supervise/spamd/run) and add the --maxchildren=x option to limit how many processes it will spawn:

After trying what you described and going as low as 2, It seems that spamd still spawns many sa-learn jobs regardless of that setting. I still have to rename sa-learn, at least until I get more RAM.

I found that I had to do a reboot to get it to take effect. You may be able to restart the service to make it take effect as well - it was 1am when I changed mine so a reboot was no big deal.

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