MailScanner being killed and restarted until system hangs

[Julian Field]

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At 09:46 30/09/2004, you wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>after I've been running MailScanner successfully since beginning of August,
>strange things are happening since last Saturday.
>Since then, MailScanner has started being killed from time to time (out of
>memory) and thus begun starting inumerable processes making the system going
>out of memory, the load climed dramatically (avg load > 16) and several
>processes (i.e. apache, exim, shh, ...) exited and the system hung (log
>excerpts see below).
>
>Well this happend twice the last few days.
>Has somebody a experienced similar beaviour or a glue what that might come
>from?
>
>I'm running MailScanner (4.32.5), with SpamAssassin (2.64), ClamAv-Module /
>Bitdefender on a Debian box with exim (exact config below).

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