MailScanner taking tons of cpu/mem and halting my server

[James Gray]

Peter Bonivart wrote:
> James Gray wrote:
>
>>I once inherited a Solaris system that was configured with 2 drives in a
>>RAID5 with one hot spare.  How did the space cadet who configured the
>>server accomplish this feat you ask?
>>
>>Well, they simply partitioned each drive into two slices.  Voila! Four
>>separate partitions and DiskSuite[1] was happy: 3 slices into RAID5, the
>>4th becoming the "hot spare".  (Technical bit: The metastat databases
>>were on different drives)  When I went to manglement to ask them for
>>some $$$ to buy another drive and fix the problem, the response was "but
>>$PREVIOUS_ADMIN said this was fully redundant!".
>
>
> It wasn't completely happy since it even complains about metadevices on
> the same controller. However, nothing can stop a clueless admin.
>
>
>>So I just backed everything up and turned it into a RAID-0 with no hot
>>spare.  Some people should not be allowed NEAR computers :P
>
>
> Thereby retaining the non-existing redundancy. ;-)
>
> --
> /Peter Bonivart
>
> --Unix lovers do it in the Sun
>
> Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, Sendmail 8.12.10, MailScanner 4.25-14,
> SpamAssassin 2.63 + DCC 1.2.30, ClamAV 0.67 + GMP 4.1.2, MailStats 0.25

Precisely - PLUS I had the cover of blaming $PREVIOUS_ADMIN for any and
all failures by saying "told you so". ;)

-- James