-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2006-01-09 at 13:23 +0100, Anders Norrbring wrote:
Hi and thanks! It seems like it was spamassassin.. When it ran a lint, every bit of memory was grabbed. I have 2GB of memory in the box, so it seemed a little weird at first.
lint? What is that command? :-?
However, I'm running an old SA on that box, apparently not well configured either.. :) I found that the bayes database files was almost 16GB in size! When I deleted those, a lint went just fine!
Uau! That's big. I dissabled autolearn some time ago, I only allow it to learn manually. And then I purge the database now and then, when it start to not mark spam properly - for which purpose I keep a mailbox full of the last half a year of spam at least.
At 4.35 in the morning, cron triggers a rules_du_jour update of the SA rules, and after that, a lint is run... I hope this will help, at least until I have the time and inspiration to upgrade it all to SuSE 10..
Ah! Could be that, yes. 16Gb! You could increase your swap space :-p Now that I remember, there are some task accounting utilities, that I don't really know how they work; I'm thinking of sa and such, pacckage acct. I understand they might be used to keep track of what the system and users are doing. It might be useful in a situation like this, but I don't know what impact it has on system perfomance, if any. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDwmCstTMYHG2NR9URAnIwAJ9zxh4iJwPNjMx3BO7EEPe50z9EIwCfak0P o/ZgWhfdAUQRBHOn0MdE4dM= =tLeS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----