oom-killer - Spamassassin timeout?

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Dirk Enrique Seiffert wrote:

>I run MailScanner 4.43.8-1 with spamassasin 3.0.4-1.1 on SUSE Linux 9.3 
>Profesional, kernel 2.6.11.4-21.8-smp. The machine is a Dual Xeon, Raid1, 2G 
>Memory, moves about 20.000 mails per day. After working well for about 10 
>days the server runs out of Memory with a message like:
>
>Aug  4 16:17:34 mail kernel: Normal: 74*4kB 1059*8kB 1072*16kB 85*32kB 40*64kB 
>23*128kB 9*256kB 2*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*
>4096kB = 40544kB
>Aug  4 16:17:34 mail kernel: HighMem: 50*4kB 3*8kB 2*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 
>0*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB =
> 768kB
>Aug  4 16:17:34 mail kernel: Swap cache: add 544992, delete 544786, find 
>4201134/4202803, race 0+10
>Aug  4 16:17:34 mail kernel: Free swap  = 0kB
>Aug  4 16:17:34 mail kernel: Total swap = 2104440kB
>Aug  4 16:17:34 mail kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 21212 
>(MailScanner).
>
>This happened two times now, on both crash I could see "SpamAssassin timed 
>out" in the maillogs. 
>
>Any other users know these problems or even a solution?
>
>Best wishes
>
>Enrique
>
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I have seen that,
Redhat 9
Turned out to be bad memory.
HTH--

Brian @

wubba at Vipershells.com
Content Scanning Via
MailScanner/ClamAV/Spamassassin


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