Hello, I have the following problem, somewhere week, I upgraded to version 2.2.21, now I am the server (2 CPU machine vmware and 1.5 gb of ram) locked, making a ps-efa I notice that processes SpamAssassin are about 200. The servers are configured around 60 domains. I tried on the forum and I have found something that concerns clamd and I made the change in order to make it run as a deamon, but the same problem exists. At this moment the situation is this ... top - 08:04:42 up 2 days, 12:18, 3 users, load average: 106.53, 96.07, 101.65 Tasks: 523 total, 70 running, 413 sleeping, 0 stopped, 40 zombie Cpu(s): 60.2%us, 38.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 1.2%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1556800k total, 678792k used, 878008k free, 9064k buffers Swap: 9895956k total, 144112k used, 9751844k free, 75896k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1590 10075 18 0 23348 20m 2000 R 13 1.3 0:03.42 spamassassin 1840 web53_mr 18 0 15372 13m 1708 R 13 0.9 0:02.54 spamassassin 2007 web139_i 18 0 11768 9.9m 1660 R 13 0.7 0:01.20 spamassassin 1723 10075 18 0 22692 19m 2000 R 10 1.3 0:03.31 spamassassin 1581 web136_i 18 0 23348 20m 2000 R 10 1.3 0:03.60 spamassassin 1716 web60_cu 18 0 14824 12m 1692 R 10 0.9 0:02.62 spamassassin 1935 web33_in 18 0 10456 8876 1644 R 9 0.6 0:01.31 spamassassin 2050 web100_i 18 0 4600 3028 1360 R 8 0.2 0:00.24 spamassassin 1650 web98_in 19 0 23260 20m 2000 R 7 1.3 0:03.00 spamassassin 1625 web46_da 18 0 22736 19m 2000 R 6 1.3 0:03.30 spamassassin 1663 web106_i 19 0 23340 20m 2000 R 6 1.3 0:03.80 spamassassin 1799 web25_in 18 0 15640 13m 1708 R 6 0.9 0:02.82 spamassassin 2030 web28_or 18 0 4336 2740 1360 R 6 0.2 0:00.21 spamassassin 1678 web1_g.f 19 0 23344 20m 2000 R 6 1.3 0:03.31 spamassassin 760 root 16 0 2628 1504 856 R 5 0.1 0:04.52 top 1381 web60_in 18 0 20760 17m 2000 R 5 1.2 0:03.15 spamassassin 1618 web97_mi 18 0 19548 17m 1880 R 4 1.2 0:02.87 spamassassin 1984 web61_in 18 0 4068 2452 1356 R 4 0.2 0:00.28 spamassassin 1817 web53_cz 19 0 19596 17m 1880 R 4 1.2 0:02.82 spamassassin 2599 clamav 15 0 203m 17m 900 S 4 1.2 713:28.05 clamd 1842 web30_in 18 0 11764 10m 1660 R 4 0.7 0:01.72 spamassassin 1969 web28_in 20 0 4072 2472 1356 R 4 0.2 0:00.22 spamassassin 1703 web1_inf 18 0 15980 14m 1880 R 3 0.9 0:02.41 spamassassin 1726 web147_o 19 0 23352 20m 2000 R 3 1.3 0:03.60 spamassassin 1740 web25_we 19 0 22952 20m 2000 R 3 1.3 0:03.54 spamassassin 1561 web25_in 19 0 23384 20m 2000 R 3 1.3 0:03.44 spamassassin 1846 web46_in 18 0 9644 7996 1612 R 3 0.5 0:01.43 spamassassin 2037 web139_i 18 0 7416 5892 1536 R 3 0.4 0:00.91 spamassassin 1862 web46_da 18 0 10712 9120 1644 R 3 0.6 0:01.68 spamassassin 1885 10184 18 0 10584 8960 1644 R 3 0.6 0:01.82 spamassassin 1967 web44_in 18 0 4864 3260 1360 R 2 0.2 0:00.29 spamassassin 2003 web58_in 19 0 3940 2368 1356 R 2 0.2 0:00.17 spamassassin 1626 web30_in 18 0 15372 13m 1708 R 2 0.9 0:02.16 spamassassin 2044 web33_in 18 0 5336 1212 940 R 2 0.1 0:00.05 clamdscan 22368 bind 25 0 37980 9108 1480 S 1 0.6 8:01.95 named 901 postfix 16 0 6508 3236 2596 S 1 0.2 0:00.26 smtpd 1919 web60_in 18 0 8360 6848 1568 R 1 0.4 0:00.87 spamassassin Tnx Musashi
Try to use daemonized version of SpamAssassin (spamd). There ale forum topics where this is explained in details.