Running out of memory

Jacob S stormspotter at 6Texans.net
Thu May 5 20:00:41 PDT 2005


On Thu, 5 May 2005 11:39:05 -1000
Clifton Royston <cliftonr at 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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