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[Peter Peters]

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José Angel Blanco González wrote on 17-11-2005 9:06:
> I think maybe pop problem, but pop is necessary. Yes, we have some huge
> mailboxes. I thought that the problem was with MAilScanner because of
> swapping. Is there any solution for huge mailboxes??

I worked on a mailscanner box that ran out of memory and it stopped
working because of the ammount of swapping he did. After a few reboots
(and waiting for the mirror to rebuild) we were able to pinpoint the
problem. It was with SpamAssassin. Some trace investigations showed the
box ran out of memory during the precompile of SpamAssassin.

It happened also with a new version of SpamAssassin. The spamd test ran
out of memory. The system was a RedHat EL3 based system with a recently
updated glibc. After installing SA on a few other systems it showed EL4
didn't have any problem. Disabling TLS on the EL3 boxes fixed the problem.

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Peter Peters, senior beheerder (Security)
Dienst Informatietechnologie, Bibliotheek en Educatie (ITBE)
Universiteit Twente,  Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
telefoon: 053 - 489 2301, fax: 053 - 489 2383, http://www.utwente.nl/itbe
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