oom-killer - Spamassassin timeout?

[Pete Russell]

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We had this for a long time, i have do a machine restart on one machine 
each day. We think its a kernel issue. The freq of event its certainly 
much much greater since we applied a custom kernel.


Julian Field wrote:
> Try reducing the "Restart Every" time.
> 
> 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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> 

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