Cpanel 11 - spam assassin & memory

[contink]

Wasn't sure where to pop this one in truth but hopefully this is ok here.

I've got a VPS server with rackforce and in the past 48 hours it has suddenly jumped through the roof in terms of memory usage with incredibly high mem in Spam Assassin in particular.

Just wondering if anyone else is using a hosting system like that and hitting similar problems of late.

[Geoff]

Thou shalt read thy documentation.

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/OutOfMemoryProblems

[russdev]

Well can't access my vps from here but later tonight will have a look at mine (it's on rackforce as well).

Russell

[contink]

Thou shalt read thy documentation.

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/OutOfMemoryProblems

Aye... but in CPanel they tend to do things in a non standard way and little/no documentation on how to apply wiki's like that to your setup.

As it goes, most of the stuff mentioned there isn't relevant or has already been covered. But thanks regardless.

[russdev]

As word of famous forensic scientist once said nothing Hinky here.

I am using version WHM 11.2.0 cPanel 11.11.0-R16983

Russ

[contink]

As word of famous forensic scientist once said nothing Hinky here.

That would be the famous dictionary scientist then

I am using version WHM 11.2.0 cPanel 11.11.0-R16983

Strange... Same here, just can't work out where all this RAM has gone to!.. Starting to suspect a rootkit but no proof whatsoever

[contink]

@Russ: FYI...

I had a look at possible causes and it seems spamassassin in collusion with exim is most likely the culprit so I did a little tweaking and whilst I don't know if it's helped too much it has reduced some of the load.

1. Installed this:
http://www.configserver.com/free/eximdeny.html

2. changed all valiases from :blackhole: to :fail:

Overall that seems to have had the desired effect..

Seriously giving some consideration to installing this at some point as well:
http://www.grscripts.com/