Re: Suddenly load average of 15-18???

[Stephen M. Przepiora]

Take a look at the switches you have in /etc/init.d/spamassassin change 
them to only run 5 processess and to die off after 15 or twenty scans.
-m5 --max-conn-per-child=5
Steve

Thomas Cameron wrote:

> All -
>
> spamc is suddenly bringing my mail server to its knees.
>
> Running RHEL 4 with the spamassassin-3.0.1-0.EL4 (supplied by Red Hat) 
> and spamass-milter-0.3.0-3 (I made that RPM) along with 
> razor-agents-2.67-0, dcc-1.3.0-0 and pyzor-0.4.0-0.
>
> All of a sudden about two days ago spamc processes were chewing up the 
> machine - sendmail was actually rejecting messages because the load 
> average was so high!  This is a machine that is only used for about 6 
> users...  It only handles around a thousand to two thousand messages a 
> day.  I am the only admin on it and nothing has changed.
>
> Here is my local.cf:
>
> --- begin ---
> required_score 5
> report_safe 1
> rewrite_header subject **SPAM** _SCORE_
> ok_languages en
> ok_locales en
> use_dcc 1
> use_pyzor 1
> use_razor2 1
> whitelist_from_rcvd address@hidden
> whitelist_from_rcvd address@hidden
>
> score ALL_TRUSTED 0 0 0 0
> --- end ---
>
> Here are the relevant lines from my sendmail.mc:
>
> --- begin ---
> INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`greylist',`S=local:/var/milter-greylist/milter-greylist.sock')dnl 
>
> define(`confMILTER_MACROS_HELO', `{verify}, {cert_subject}')dnl
> define(`confMILTER_MACROS_ENVFROM', `i, {auth_authen}')dnl
>
> INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass.sock, F=, 
> T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m')dnl
> define(`confMILTER_MACROS_CONNECT',`b, j, _, {daemon_name}, {if_name}, 
> {if_addr}')dnl
>
> INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`clamav-milter', 
> `S=local:/var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.sock, F=T,T=S:4m;R:4m;E:10m')
>
> --- end ---
>
> I have no idea why it is doing this...  It was working fine and then 
> this happened sort of out of the blue.  Any pointers?
>
> Thanks!
> Thomas


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