OT: mailscanner & oom killer on fc2

[Peter Russell]

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YEah we had this issues on RHEL4, we have 3 machines and this occured
only on one of them. Same symptoms as you. The message queue had a few
thousand emails in it as this occured at the start of a long weekend.

My colleague checked over the red hat stuff and found that we had rhen a
few patches and some required a restart which we hadnt done, restarted
mail was processed, it hasnt re occured in the past 3 days.

MailScanner version 4.38.10
SA 3.02 (dcc, razor, pyzor, heaps of SAREs)
Postfix 2.1.5


Vlad Mazek wrote:
> That is what I suspected was the issue because I saw a number of tnef
> and doc files in the /var/spool/mqueue.in directory. However, after
> cleaning it up, I ran into the problem again. I ran MailScanner in the
> debug mode and it reported no problems at all.
>
> Things are stable again, for the time being, but I cannot figure out
> what caused the issue to begin with. Has anybody had a similar issue?
>
> -Vlad
>
> Martin Hepworth wrote:
>
>> Vlad
>>
>> check in the message for old messages. There maybe some message in there
>> that's causing the thing to fall over.
>>
>> IE, stop MS, move everything out of the inbound queue, start MS. If
>> everythings back to normal drip in the queue files back and see if one
>> of them triggers the bad.
>
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