When the memory usage spikes up on a spamd child, it does so on a single
message; from 36K or so up to 250M. That one message shows up in my
logs taking a _long_ time:
Oct 4 18:46:06 devilrock spamd[1800]: identified spam (12.8/5.0) for :500
in 165.3 seconds, 1490 bytes.
Most of the spams
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:29:38 -0700, "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Please note that pretty much *all* our documentation notes that this is
> the case. You should NOT scan very large messages.
We configure our spamd client to only pass spamd up to the first 50KB of
a message. Definit
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David Brodbeck writes:
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:00:51 -0700, Potato Chip wrote
> > It's happened to me about 3 times, where an email will be sent to my
> > server that specifically causes the problem. Killing the spamd process
> > causes the sending M
Morris Jones wrote:
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, David Brodbeck wrote:
I've seen this problem. I avoid it by bypassing SpamAssassin for all mail
larger than 1 megabyte. Very little spam is this large, since it'd be
inefficient to send.
I'm already bypassing it for anything over 256000 bytes.
Mojo
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, David Brodbeck wrote:
> I've seen this problem. I avoid it by bypassing SpamAssassin for all mail
> larger than 1 megabyte. Very little spam is this large, since it'd be
> inefficient to send.
I'm already bypassing it for anything over 256000 bytes.
Mojo
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Morris Jones
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:00:51 -0700, Potato Chip wrote
> It's happened to me about 3 times, where an email will be sent to my
> server that specifically causes the problem. Killing the spamd process
> causes the sending MTA to resend. It usually occurs with an email
> with a large MIME attachment.
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From: "Potato Chip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 2:00 PM
Subject: RE: Memory usage spikes ...
> I've been calling this the Email Scud problem. I've been hoping for a
> patriot missle for a long time. I ha
I've been calling this the Email Scud problem. I've been hoping for a
patriot missle for a long time. I have noticed the same problem with
v2.63 and v2.64. I upgraded to v3.0 hoping that the problem would go
away but it's still there.
It's happened to me about 3 times, where an email will be sent
