On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:14:43AM -0700, Robert Bartlett wrote: > SA 2.63 > > Well looking at the messages log it appears the cron job to update the black > list ran right before things started running out of memory. Maybe it just > got hung up? > > Robert
If you are running blacklist.cf, don't. It's a huge memory hog and was replaced by bigevil.cf, but that, too, has grown way out of usability. Go to http://ws.surbl.org/ and follow the directions for SA 2.6.3. Then punt blacklist*.cf and bigevil.cf and restart spamd. > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 9:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SA Stopped Working > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:03:05AM -0700, Robert Bartlett wrote: > > This morning I wake up to find my server extremely slow. After about 5 > > minutes I was able to finally get to the command line on the box. I check > > out the memory usage and it showed only 3 megs available. I checked the > > processes and noticed spamd having multiple instances with it ran by > nobody > > and with the processing up to 99% with memory at 70%. Apparently whenever > > this started SA stopped working because I have people telling me they got > a > > bunch of spam in their mailbox and when you look at the headers it has > > question marks instead of points for the SA section. > > > > Now the weird part is nobody would never run spamd, only the qmailscanner. > > Also I noticed it wasnt its usual line, instead of the normal spamd -h -m5 > > then a couple of other flags, it was showing spamd -u > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > When I tried restarting SA the same issue was happening, it required me to > > stop it for a few minutes and then bring it back up. After that all is > well. > > Any idea what happened? Could this have been a hack? Anyway of preventing > > this? > > > > Thanks > > Robert > > What version of SA? > > What's in your /etc/mail/spamassassin/ (or wherever your local.cf > lives)? > > Cheers, > -- > Bob McClure, Jr. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com What did Noah do with the woodpeckers?
