MailScanner taking tons of cpu/mem and halting my server

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Jody Cleveland [mailto:Cleveland at WINNEFOX.ORG] 
> Envoyé : 23 mars, 2004 11:30
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Re: MailScanner taking tons of cpu/mem and halting my server
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > Hardware?
> It's a P3 1Ghz with 512mb ram, 2 9gb drives in a raid 1 and 2 18gb
> drives in a raid 5.
> 
> > Volume?
> We'd normally get about 1000 a day. But, since this happened, we reset
> the mx record to point directly to the exchange server. So, right now
> the load is 0.
> 
> > Output of free?
> How do I determine that?

Type free in a console and press enter (while under load, of course).

Anything weird in the logs?
> 
> - Jody
>