Hello, I'm running SA in a combination of "sendmail -> smtp-vilter -> spamd" some weeks with almost no problems. But today spamd killed my machine with 1 GB of Memory. spamd really ate all memory including the swap space so I had to cold reboot the machine. First I ran spamd with the parameter -m10 but now I reduced it to -m5 since I thought this could help. But the load is still very high (between 2 and 19). Does anybody have a hint how to reduce the memory usage on a high load mail server? Another idea was to exclude completely some mails from spam checking, since I get a lot of status reports by mail, which have no need for spam checking, but I haven't found a hint for some according options? I tried "trusted_networks", "whitelist_to" and "whitelist_from" as parameters in the local.cf but as far as I could see in the logfiles, the SA will anyhow invoked. Another idea of mine was to reduce the maximum message size (option -s of spamc). But I haven't a glue how spamd invokes spamc so I can set this option?
Any help would be nice. Regards, Ralf
