When the memory usage spikes up on a spamd child, it does so on a single message; from 36K or so up to 250M. That one message shows up in my logs taking a _long_ time:
Oct 4 18:46:06 devilrock spamd[1800]: identified spam (12.8/5.0) for xxxx:500 in 165.3 seconds, 1490 bytes. Most of the spams are identified in 2-4 seconds. I decided to watch my logs for one of these to come by, and save out the message. But that was really useless. The message itself doesn't trigger the memory spike. In this case the triggering message was a simple little random spam, with a few random words thrown in. Repeat runs through spamc give a two second result and no memory spike. So something else is causing the memory spike. Something to do with bayes db maintenance perhaps? Best regards, Mojo On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Morris Jones wrote: > Yesterday I commented that I was seeing spamd children eating a lot of > memory, pushing the machine into swap. I've been keeping an eye on > the spamd children this morning. > > Overnight, all five children were using around 4 meg. This morning > sometime, one spamd child shot up to 250M: > > Mem: 513948K av, 504660K used, 9288K free, 0K shrd, 15532K buff > Swap: 1052216K av, 263780K used, 788436K free 68408K > cached > > PID PPID USER SIZE STAT %CPU %MEM COMMAND > 1537 15624 root 250M S 0.0 44.5 spamd child > > 25394 15624 root 40056 S 0.0 6.1 spamd child > > 1432 15624 root 38932 S 0.0 6.0 spamd child > > 1241 15624 root 38768 S 0.0 6.0 spamd child > > 1754 15624 root 39308 S 0.0 6.0 spamd child > > > Yesterday afternoon when I killed and restarted spamd, they were all using > about that much. > > Mojo > -- Morris Jones <*> Monrovia, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whiteoaks.com
