Server spinning out of control...

[Jamie]

  No, we aren't running razor, just the base spamassassin without razor,
DCC, or Pyzor.




On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Max Clark wrote:

> Are you running razor? Something that I have experienced with spamassassin
> is if you have external network checks enabled and spamassassin cannot
> connect to the resource uptime goes crazy.
>
> Max
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Jamie
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:57 PM
> To: Rus Foster
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Server spinning out of control...
>
>
>
>
>     That is a good idea, thanks. We did check that though. Went through
> each user's accounts checking their .forwards and procmaillrc files.
>
>     We are running spamassassin 2.55, and in the global procmailrc file we
> call spamc which connects to a spamd running on another machine.
>
>     Are you aware of any other system utilities that might be used to
> trace CPU consumption and trap problems? We've taken a lot of stabs in the
> dark with what it could be, and we'd like to try some solid diagnostic
> utils to shed more light.
>
>    - Jamie
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Rus Foster wrote:
>
> > >    We've got a server that occassionally becomes temporarily useless
> > > because the load average shoots up to around 150.0 or so, and then
> slowly
> > > winds down over a 2 minute period. I cannot seem to find the process
> which
> > > is putting so much load on the machine. I've tried running top with the
> q
> > > switch, as well as the "I" switch, and when top opens, I can't see
> > > anything consuming large amounts of CPU power or consuming much memory,
> > > but the load average will be incredibly high. There isn't anything
> unusual
> > > in /var/log/messages to indicate anything which might be causing the
> load
> > > average to go shooting through the ceiling.
> >
> > Are you running any sort of spam filtering? Could a use put something in
> > their ~/.forward?
> >
> > Rus
> >
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