Ariel wrote:
List, this is normal?
Spamd is killing my server




Cpu(s): 43.7% us,  7.9% sy,  0.0% ni, 30.1% id, 18.2% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   2075128k total,  1813664k used,   261464k free,   198980k buffers
Swap:   522104k total,      164k used,   521940k free,  1046028k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
19948 vpopmail  16   0 38812  33m 2704 S 11.3  1.7   0:57.46 spamd
20118 vpopmail  16   0 41720  36m 2716 S  9.2  1.8   1:01.58 spamd
19946 vpopmail  17   0 39932  34m 2364 S  8.9  1.7   1:04.07 spamd
29595 named     21   0 93492  56m 2020 S  3.9  2.8  10:54.12 named
  458 vpopmail  18   0  6292 3632 1992 S  1.5  0.2   0:00.05 pyzor
  459 vpopmail  18   0  7348 3632 1992 S  1.5  0.2   0:00.05 pyzor
  464 vpopmail  19   0  7692 3636 1992 S  1.5  0.2   0:00.05 pyzor
20119 vpopmail  16   0 40452  34m 2360 S  0.9  1.7   1:00.70 spamd

Depending on what rules you're loading, yes. If you have added all kinds of extra rules, or are using the sa-learn functions and not cleaning up after it then this is normal. You have to remember that for every message that comes in, a spamd process has to be created to process it. And each spamd process will load all of the rules into memory. That's why it's better to block the messages at the SMTP level - so you're not creating spamd processes and hogging resources every time a message comes in.

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