MailScanner suddently taking all the CPU and a lot of memory.

[Yannick Cayer]

I guess I could set a rule with spamassassin to block the subjects....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Kevin Spicer
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 6:11 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MailScanner suddently taking all the CPU and a
> lot of memory.
>
> On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 22:47, Yannick Cayer wrote:
>
> > We have about a 100 small sites configured for mail mostly
> and some,
> > web.
> >
> > This is running on RedHat Linux 7.3 Kernel 2.4.18-27.7.xsmp
> >
> > We have been running MailScanner on that machine for almost 2 years
> > now without any problems.
> >
> > Since last week, MailScanner has been bringing the server
> almost to a
> > complete halt, loads are skyrocking very suddently to 200!
> It is also
> > taking at that time about 25MB per MailScanner process.
> >
> > It does this for several minutes to a few hours and then suddently
> > comes back.
> >
>
> 'Since Last Week' - are you sure this isn't anything to do
> with the MyDoom outbreak and its associated bounce messages
> (the load on my production server doubled and it struggled to
> keep up at times).  If you're not already doing so I suggest
> taking steps to block subjects/ email addresses used by this
> virus at your MTA (sendmail rulesets have ben posted several
> times in the last week - search the archives for 'LOCAL RULESET')
>
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