James Lavery wrote:
Hi all, Version: 3.1.4 OS - Unslung 6.8 on a Linksys NSLU2 (Slug) Running spamd with fetchmail and postfix
How much memory do one of those things have?
A couple of days ago the Slug hung with masses of disk activity; when I looked at what was going on, it seemd that spamd and/or spamc were chewing up resources. Looking at the spamd log file (relevant part included below) indicates that I hadn't got my max-child setting high enough to cope with a flurry of emails coming in. Is this my problem, or is this a red herring, and is it the warning logged by child process 17429 ' copy_config timeout, respawning child process..'? After this, it sems that 17429 no longer talks to the parent process.
respawning child... ie. the child kills itself and the parent spawns a new one. Dead children don't talk to their parents much. ;)
I'd be surprised if too low a max-children setting would be causing the problem, so can someone shed light on what the problem was with this child process? I had to restart spamd to get things going again.
It's the opposite. Too large of a setting causes the machine to use up all it's physical memory and swap thrash. copy_config timeouts are always indicative of this, or insane CPU load.
Daryl
