From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 5 21:39:07 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A9D816A4CE for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 21:39:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from malasada.lava.net (malasada.lava.net [64.65.64.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3A4E43D81 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 21:39:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cliftonr@lava.net) Received: by malasada.lava.net (Postfix, from userid 102) id 00D94153882; Thu, 5 May 2005 11:39:05 -1000 (HST) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 11:39:05 -1000 From: Clifton Royston To: Jacob S Message-ID: <20050505213904.GA28525@tikitechnologies.com> Mail-Followup-To: Jacob S , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050505095927.26da64e9@jacob.6texans.net> <200505051333.05098.algould@datawok.com> <20050505160800.23ad3ac4@jacob.6texans.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050505160800.23ad3ac4@jacob.6texans.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running out of memory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 21:39:07 -0000 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