> I think, RBL is not the cause for this. I run RBL via qmail, not SA and > sometimes there are 4/5 spamd processes when I run "ps aux" in the morning. > I usually stop the original spamd and kill the others, then restart spamd. > Running SA 2.54 on Suse 8.0. > If someone could explain this, it'd be great.
I suspect that there are hung spamd's interacting with the "-m" parameter. So if you have "-m 5" and, three processes are hung, you have limited things to two copies of spamd. As the numbers of working copies of spamd keeps decreasing, the number of procmail and sendmail processes keeps increasing and eventually things really get out of control as you hit paging space and max process problems. > > Cheers > Ralf G. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jack Gostl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "SpamAssassin listserve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 2:38 PM > Subject: [SAtalk] Max children > > > > > > I've seen this two or three times now, and I'm not sure what to make of > > it. > > > > Outward appearance is that we get hit with a ton of spam, or perhaps that > > an RBL goes out. I wind up with many copies of spamd running, many more > > than the -m parameter should allow. (And forget about procmail and > > sendmail. Hundreds of copies.) They never seem to go away, or at best, go > > away very, very slowly. > > > > The monitors show that disk activity is through the roof. > > > > They all but cripple the machine. Then I go in and kill sendmail, kill all > > the procmails and spamds, and restart things, and everything clear up very > > quickly. So quickly that it makes me suspicious as to what was REALLY > > wrong. Maybe something more than just load, or RBL problems. Maybe a > > locking problem. > > > > I've gone out to CPAN and made sure that all my modules are current, and > > that alone may fix it, but after that, what should I look for to help > > troubleshoot this one. > > > > -- > > > > Jack Gostl [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Jack Gostl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
