Server dies with 100% RAM and swap file use.

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Sep 4 18:11:55 IST 2003


Does the RAM in use gradually creep up, or does it suddenly go to 100%?

At 17:48 04/09/2003, you wrote:
>I'm running MailScanner from an RPM install on Red Hat 7.1 on a 800mghz
>Pentium 3 with 256MB ram and a 256MB swap. The server will run for
>24hours then die. The problem only started after installing MailScanner.
>I have mailscanner configured not to stop spam and with 3 child procs
>running, MailScanner v 4.23-11 RPM install. I have been using ClamAV for
>virus scanning. Any ideas why MailScanner seems to be dying? I set the
>auto restart config value to 10480 seconds also.
>
>--
>Stephen Breen
>c:Spot InterWorks

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