Greetings- I'm working on a mailserver with spamassassin installed sitewide. It receives some impressive spikes in traffic which seem to go hand in hand with SA crashing the machine, apparently via libc.
It's a dual PIII 1.26ghz with 2GB of RAM running debian 3.0 with SA 2.63 compiled and installed by hand with no apparent problems in that process. It's using everything but razor and pyzor at the moment, the bayesean filtering a must-have. This machine receives mail via Postfix and has been happily receiving mail (albeit a lot of junk with SA) for at least 6 months. It's configured in master.cf to inject mail into spamassassin directly. I'm not the quickest with my ninjitsu, but I've been pretty good at solving problems with this software. I've tried limiting the spamd child processes (-m 32) and tinkering with the spamc timeout (-t 5), and nothing at all, and each time when traffic spikes heavily the machine crashes and requires a hard reboot. I'd like some options and/or advice. Is there a problem with compiling SA by hand on a debian machine without any compiler tricks? I can't use the debian stable spamassassin as its spamc does not include the functionality to integrate it into the MTA and I don't really like the idea of sending this much mail through procmail. I can generate any further specifics as needed. This is a high priority fix and I'm getting sick of rebooting this machine! :) Thanks, /m
