MailScanner being killed and restarted until system hangs

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

> 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).
>
Do you have any custom rulesets for SA?




Mr Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
Hosting, co-location & domains
http://www.blacknight.ie/
Tel. +353 59 9137101

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