oom-killer - Spamassassin timeout?

[Glenn Steen]

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On 15/08/05, Dirk Enrique Seiffert <ds at caribenet.com> wrote:
> El Dom 14 Ago 2005 13:16, Julian Field escribió:
> > Try reducing the "Restart Every" time.
> 
> Researching the logs for suspicious processes I found on both crashes a
> MailScanner process "kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2121
> (MailScanner)." In the first crash the process had been running for about 4
> hours, in the second crash it was about 12 hours. I changed "Restart Every"
> to hourly restarts. (Usually I restart every 24 hours without having
> problems.)
> 
> As this is a brand new machine and I have two more installations with same O/S
> and application versions running without any problems, I would like to get a
> better idea of the reason for these crashes. Other posters on this thread
> asign this problem to bad memory or a kernel bug? Searching the net I find
> some posts on Spamassassin consuming memory. Anyhow I can see that the
> machine stays fine for about one week, then it starts slightly to swap out.
> And very fast and sudden it crashes with the OoM-killer, killing a
> MailScanner process first. (As this is only a mailserver its not a big
> suprise that MailScanner ist the first one to die, there is not much more
> running.)
> 
> Cahnging the value in "Restart Every" hopefully helps, but isn't it a
> workaround for other problems?
> 
> Thanks for your opinion
> 
> Enrique
> 

"Brand new" can still mean "not fully operational":-)...
I find memtest86 to be a very nice tool when it comes to situations
like this, where you suspect dodgy memory... Get it at:
http://www.memtest86.com/#download0

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-- Glenn
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