Hi, Today an large email caused a little bit of panic on my server. Load juped to 5.0 and swap usage to 2GB ... after a while everything went to normal by itself. Anyone has an simple explanation for it?
Log grep for the problematic amavis process: May 31 14:45:37 cygnus amavis[3821]: (03821-04) ESMTP::10024 /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20060531T143829-03821: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: SIZE=44874865 from cygnus.arctur.si ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cygnus.arctur.si [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03821-04 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 31 May 2006 14:45:37 +0200 (CEST) May 31 14:45:47 cygnus amavis[3821]: (03821-04) Checking: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> May 31 14:46:13 cygnus amavis[3821]: (03821-04) TROUBLE in check_mail: spam-wb-list FAILED: Out of memory during "large" request for 134221824 bytes, total sbrk() is 1150513152 bytes at /usr/local/sbin/amavisd line 3553, <GEN5> line 1816041. May 31 14:46:13 cygnus amavis[3821]: (03821-04) PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20060531T143829-03821 May 31 14:46:13 cygnus postfix/smtp[2157]: F2798CB6C57: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, orig_to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1], delay=257, status=deferred (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing, id=03821-04, spam-wb-list FAILED: Out of memory during "large" request for 134221824 bytes, total sbrk() is 1150513152 bytes at /usr/local/sbin/amavisd line 3553, <GEN5> line 1816041. (in reply to end of DATA command)) -- Kind regards, Marko Kobal.
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