[AMaViS-user] RE: amavisd memory leak? eating all available virtual memory. <---- i found the problem

[Aaron S. <as...@ax...>]

I found the problem.. it was my razor agent.

I found the log in /root/.razor and it complained
Of not being able to contact the internet and was basically looping.

This mailhost has restricted outbound access

Once I disabled the razor agent it is working fine.

I was able to turn it off by adding this line to
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf:

use_razor2 0

its working MUCH better now.

As an aside, does anyone know how to make razor use a squid proxy to =
access the internet instead?

I hope this helps others.

Aaron Sheard

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Sheard=20
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:52 PM
To: 'ama...@li...'
Subject: amavisd memory leak? eating all available virtual memory.

I am currently running amavisd-new 2.3.1 with postfix and=20
spamassassin / clamav
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i am having a problem where amavisd child processes eat more and more =
ram until the linux box runs out of virtual memory.
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i have tried disabling the antivirus scanning portion, changing number =
of child procs, max_requests etc to no avail
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no matter what i try to do it slowly eats more and more ram until it =
does not process any mail any more
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has anyone else seen this behavior? where should i start looking?
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i have tried to do the research on it before posting to this list but =
have come up empty.
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amavisd-new 2.3.1
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SpamAssassin version 3.0.3
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Perl version 5.8.5
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postfix-2.1.5-2.2
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clamav-0.85.1-1.1.fc3.rf
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OS: Fedora Core 3

More information =96 when the process starts to eat memory, the last =
line in the debug log is:

May 25 16:51:12 mailserver /usr/local/sbin/amavisd[1239]: (01239-37) =
calling SA parse, SA version 3.0.3
May 25 16:51:12 mailserver /usr/local/sbin/amavisd[1239]: (01239-37) =
CALLING SA check

And nothing after that =96 is it hanging on spamassassin? It appears so, =
what would be my next step?

If there are 4 child processes, the other 3 continue working but one of =
them
Stops processing mail and the last line in the debug log for that =
process is
CALLING SA check..

Eventually the system runs out of virtual memory and all the mail stops.

Also, it doesn=92t seem to hang on a particular type of email.

thanks in advance for any help or advice.
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Aaron Sheard

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Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.3.0 - Release Date: 5/30/2005
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