From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 6 03:00:41 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 7BFCE16A4CE for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 03:00:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ylpvm15.prodigy.net (ylpvm15-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C90643D7E for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 03:00:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stormspotter@6Texans.net) Received: from pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (pimout1-int.prodigy.net [207.115.5.65])j462upK0014673 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 22:56:51 -0400 X-ORBL: [64.108.40.225] Received: from jacob.6texans.net (adsl-64-108-40-225.dsl.rcfril.ameritech.net [64.108.40.225])j4630eqT111502 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 23:00:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 22:00:38 -0500 From: Jacob S To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050505220038.4ee0c05d@jacob.6texans.net> In-Reply-To: <20050505213904.GA28525@tikitechnologies.com> References: <20050505095927.26da64e9@jacob.6texans.net> <200505051333.05098.algould@datawok.com> <20050505160800.23ad3ac4@jacob.6texans.net> <20050505213904.GA28525@tikitechnologies.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Fri, 06 May 2005 03:00:41 -0000 On Thu, 5 May 2005 11:39:05 -1000 Clifton Royston wrote: > 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. :-) We just noticed several users with full mailboxes as well, which backs up the Exim queue and uses more ram. And of course, these are the people that are currently getting spammed heavily. So, I should have some good starting points for minimizing load. Thanks, Jacob