Andrew Jeffries wrote:
I'm running spamassassin 3.1.0 as spamd with the following command line
options:

-m 5 --max-conn-per-child=5 -u mail --ident-timeout=30 -s
/var/log/spamd.log -D --round-robin

When I receive a certain email (or a few from the same top level domain)
it hangs spamassassin as it tries to allocate a boatload of memory
(excerpt from top, this is a 512MB machine):

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  6076 mail      18   0  876m 452m  660 R  7.3 91.4   0:22.34 spamd

By the way, before anyone asks, I have the following in my exim.conf having been bitten by large emails before, so it's not that:

  accept condition  = ${if >{$message_size}{500k}{yes}{no}}

That's been working fine until this email started coming through.

Cheers,



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