Hi list
I know the issue of spamd spawning too many processes and what can be done about that has been discussed here before. But until today my system never had that problem, I didn't even have to use the -m switch.
But after a crash today I can't get spamd to limit the number of child processes. The system chokes itself to death every time I try. It has 1GB of memory, so you can imagine how many spamd procs it takes to crash it...
Using SA 2.60, qmail-scanner, spamd/spamc and the following script in /service/spamd/run:
#!/bin/bash
export LANG=de
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 60000000 /usr/bin/spamd -m1 -x -L -D -u qmaild 2>&1
As you can see I even added the -m switch but after a few minutes, the number of processes runs rampant again.
I tried to throw out some of those extra .cf-files, like Stearn's blacklist, and that seems to help, but shouldn't the -m work anyway??
Any ideas greatly appreciated
Cheers Ralf G.
