oom-killer - Spamassassin timeout?

[Vlad Mazek]

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We had a similar issues and it turned out to be running out of handles.. 
Try this:

ulimit -n 4096
service MailScanner start

That solved it for us, even though it was saying that there was a memory 
issue bumping up the limit helped.

-Vlad

Pete Russell wrote:

> 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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