Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 22:00:38 -0500 From: Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running out of memory 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>
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On Thu, 5 May 2005 11:39:05 -1000 Clifton Royston <cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com> 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
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