Server dies with 100% RAM and swap file use.

[Mr. Greyhair]

have you seen what is using up the RAM? Did you use 'top' to see the hogs?  Is this machine *only* for Email, no other programs running (like apache, tomcat, etc)?  Is buying more ram an option (newegg.com!)?

Stephen Breen <sbreen at CSPOTMAIL.COM> 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