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[Scott Silva]

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Peter Peters spake the following on 11/17/2005 1:07 AM:
> 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.
> 
> --
> 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
The TLS libraries have been a source of many problems in the EL3 /
Redhat 9 era of distros.
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