No, the scanning is only command-line (called from XAV). The problem is that there must have been some mailed queued up. After the power was restored and the system restarted, Xmail must have threaded things / called > 20 copies of Spam Assassin and XAV simultaneously. This used up 5 times my physical memory and of course the system then began swapping and was unusable. Is there a way to limit the number of parallel/synchronous messages filtered?
Thanks, ... Jason At 07:24 PM 4/1/2004 -0800, you wrote: >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] - 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]
