Bowie Bailey wrote:
WrackWeb - Jean Respen wrote:
Hello,
I've some troubles with spamassassin. Sometimes (and i don't know why
exactly) my server has high load (like 50 or 60 or more) so it's
impossible to connect via ssh, everything crash (apache, qmail,
vpopmail, etc...) and i have to go to the datacenter to reboot the
server... and if i'm able to connect via ssh (after having waited 40
minutes...) i can see that perl or spamd are the processes which take
the most part of the load (perl due to qmailscanner, who invoke
spamassassin). I'm under a debian stable, i've installed spamassassin
via package AND source... maybe it's because of this
In my syslog i've this just before it crashed :
Jul 24 15:55:47 localhost spamd[29579]: prefork: child states:
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBKBBBBBBBB
Has anyone got an idea?
Looks like it's spawning more children than your server can handle.
How much memory do you have on this server? Use the "-m" option to
spamd to reduce the maximum number of children.
You can look at the memory usage of the children with top during
normal operation and then compare that with your available memory to
get an idea of how many children you can handle before the machine
starts going into swap. Once you stat swapping, your performance will
take a nosedive.
Mhhhh the processor is a Xeon 64 bits 2.8 ghz with 1 go of ram, i really
don't think it comes from there, don't u?
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Jean "Wrack" Respen
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http://www.wrackweb.net
