RE: [SOLVED] Re: Suddenly load average of 15-18???
From: Thomas Cameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:38 AM To: spamassassin-users; spamass-milt-list@nongnu.org Subject: [SOLVED] Re: Suddenly load average of 15-18??? OK, this is a weird solution... I rebooted the server and all the problems went away. It's chuffing along happily now. Memory leak, maybe? What kind of hardware? Are you scanning zips? I had to just start blocking zip attachments all together until these virii settle down a bit. .jon
RE: [SOLVED] Re: Suddenly load average of 15-18???
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 11:46 -0500, Jon Dossey wrote: From: Thomas Cameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:38 AM To: spamassassin-users; spamass-milt-list@nongnu.org Subject: [SOLVED] Re: Suddenly load average of 15-18??? OK, this is a weird solution... I rebooted the server and all the problems went away. It's chuffing along happily now. Memory leak, maybe? What kind of hardware? Are you scanning zips? I had to just start blocking zip attachments all together until these virii settle down a bit. .jon It's just a plain Jane P-III 800MHz with 512MB memory on a 7-disk RAID 5 Ultra 160 SCSI array. I have not disabled scanning of zip files. It is running just fine now. Very odd. Thomas
RE: [SOLVED] Re: Suddenly load average of 15-18???
From: Thomas Cameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: spamassassin-users Subject: RE: [SOLVED] Re: Suddenly load average of 15-18??? On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 11:46 -0500, Jon Dossey wrote: From: Thomas Cameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:38 AM To: spamassassin-users; spamass-milt-list@nongnu.org Subject: [SOLVED] Re: Suddenly load average of 15-18??? OK, this is a weird solution... I rebooted the server and all the problems went away. It's chuffing along happily now. Memory leak, maybe? What kind of hardware? Are you scanning zips? I had to just start blocking zip attachments all together until these virii settle down a bit. .jon It's just a plain Jane P-III 800MHz with 512MB memory on a 7-disk RAID 5 Ultra 160 SCSI array. I have not disabled scanning of zip files. It is running just fine now. Very odd. This may only be a temporary fix. Personally, rebooting a linux machine to solve a problem just isn't acceptable. Did you try restarting spamd before rebooting? I'd go through your maillog, and check the spamassassin processing times, and see if you can pinpoint where the processing time shoots up. Then, go through your mqueue and take a look at the offending message. .jon
RE: [SOLVED] Re: Suddenly load average of 15-18???
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 12:20 -0500, Jon Dossey wrote: This may only be a temporary fix. Personally, rebooting a linux machine to solve a problem just isn't acceptable. Did you try restarting spamd before rebooting? Several times. I restarted the entire mail suite - sendmail, clam, SA, milter-greylist, etc. I'd go through your maillog, and check the spamassassin processing times, and see if you can pinpoint where the processing time shoots up. Then, go through your mqueue and take a look at the offending message. It wasn't just one message. It was every message. Thomas
Re: [SOLVED] Re: Suddenly load average of 15-18???
Thomas Cameron wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 12:20 -0500, Jon Dossey wrote: I'd go through your maillog, and check the spamassassin processing times, and see if you can pinpoint where the processing time shoots up. Then, go through your mqueue and take a look at the offending message. It wasn't just one message. It was every message. I think what he's getting at is that one message can consume enough CPU and memory to bog down processing all the other ones, too. I saw this with spamd and large attachments, before I started bypassing large messages around spamassassin.
