On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Jason Badry wrote: > I am running XMail v1.17 on Win2K. It was about a month ago that I > upgraded to v1.17 and installed Spam Assassin and XAV/Mcafee > filtering. For the most part, everything has been working very well. > > This morning, we had some power trouble, and the UPS which my mail server > was plugged into didn't work. When the mail server restarted, it soon > slowed to a crawl as it was working through a mail queue and had opened up > many copies of Spam Assassin and XAV/Mcafee. The server became totally > unresponsive as memory usage was up to 1GB, with only 192MB of physical > memory. Normally there aren't any issues with memory (~75MB used) as I > only have ~20 email accounts on this server. > > To get things back to normal, it took me ~20min to get into the services > and change XMail to manual. I then rebooted the server, cleared out the > filter calls to SA / XAV, restarted XMail, and then let the server process > the queue. > > I think the server was sending out some queued messages which must have > been frozen or in queue somewhere as they were 2 weeks old. I need to > learn more about queuing... > > The other issue, is there someway to prevent XMail from launching so many > copies of the filter applications simultaneously? > > Any help would be appreciated. Would the recent update to v1.18 help out this?
Do you have on-access scanning enabled? If yes, disable it. it's not something that should run on a server machines. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
