Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 11:39:05 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com> To: Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running out of memory Message-ID: <20050505213904.GA28525@tikitechnologies.com> In-Reply-To: <20050505160800.23ad3ac4@jacob.6texans.net> References: <20050505095927.26da64e9@jacob.6texans.net> <200505051333.05098.algould@datawok.com> <20050505160800.23ad3ac4@jacob.6texans.net>
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On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:08:00PM -0500, Jacob S wrote:
> This server's hosting about 250 websites - the majority being poorly
> written php, and incoming e-mail for those domains. It has cPanel
> installed, so incoming e-mail goes through exim, spamassassin and
> clamav, but outgoing uses qmail and qmqp to let another server do the
> hard(er) delivery work.
If you aren't limiting queue concurrency to a fairly modest value, I
would suspect SpamAssassin is consuming most of the RAM. (And CPU.) SA
is a pig. I would hate it if it didn't do such a useful job. :-)
-- Clifton
--
Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com
Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect
"I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green
And whip-smart as the English Channel's wide..."
-- 'Whip-Smart', Liz Phair
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