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<font size="-1"><font face="Arial"> Hi,<br>
<br>
<font face="Arial"> I'm running amavisd 2.10.1 (latest) on a
newly installed and fully updated CentOS<font face="Arial"> 6
box (Centos 6.6) 64 bit version. <font face="Arial">Machine
<font face="Arial">is equipped with 4Gb RAM. Have tried
amavisd 2.9.1 and got exactly same results.<br>
<br>
<font face="Arial"> <font face="Arial">Amavis
configuration is pretty simple, just clam<font
face="Arial">av (using clamd.sock) for antivirus
scanning and spamassassin call for spam checking.
It's working fine, no problem on that.<br>
<br>
<font face="Arial"> However, after just a <font
face="Arial">few hours <font face="Arial">of
running (and some few hundred of messages<font
face="Arial"> processed), memory usage of
amavisd daemons are really high.<br>
<br>
<font face="Arial"> For example, i'm
now running for<font face="Arial"> a
little more than 2<font face="Arial">
hours. Logs of <font face="Arial">starting
amavisd:<br>
<br>
<font face="Arial">Oct 31 16:20:41
hermes amavis[19006]: logging
initialized, log level 2,
syslog: amavis.mail<br>
Oct 31 16:20:41 hermes
amavis[19006]: starting.
/usr/sbin/amavisd at
hermes.emsa.com.br
amavisd-new-2.10.1 (20141025),
Unicode aware,
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"<br>
<br>
<font face="Arial"> time now<br>
<br>
<font face="Arial">[root@hermes
log]# date<br>
Fri Oct 31 18:39:20 BRST
2014<br>
</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Arial"> amavisd
memory usage:<br>
<font face="Arial">13.6
/usr/sbin/amavisd
(ch86-ava vscan<br>
11.1 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(ch77-ava vscan<br>
10.4 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(ch98-ava vscan<br>
8.1 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(ch110-av vscan<br>
8.0 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(ch95-ava vscan<br>
7.8 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(ch89-ava vscan<br>
7.4
/usr/sbin/clamd
vscan<br>
7.0 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(ch86-ava vscan<br>
4.4 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(ch92-ava vscan<br>
4.3 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(ch88-ava vscan<br>
3.9 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(ch86-ava vscan</font><br>
</font><br>
<br>
after a stop/start on amavisd,
the number<font face="Arial">s
are:<br>
<br>
<font face="Arial">[root@hermes
log]# ps -eo
pmem,args,user | sort -nr
| head -15<br>
7.4
/usr/sbin/clamd
vscan<br>
2.5 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(virgin c vscan<br>
2.5 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(virgin c vscan<br>
2.5 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(virgin c vscan<br>
2.5 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(virgin c vscan<br>
2.5 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(virgin c vscan<br>
2.5 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(virgin c vscan<br>
2.5 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(virgin c vscan<br>
2.5 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(virgin c vscan<br>
2.5 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(virgin c vscan<br>
2.5 /usr/sbin/amavisd
(virgin c vscan</font><br>
</font><br>
<br>
as a workaround, i <font
face="Arial">set
$max_requests <font
face="Arial">to a low n<font
face="Arial">umber
(actually 50).</font></font></font>
However, i really dont think
that running f<font
face="Arial">or such a few
time should <font
face="Arial">lead to such
high memory <font
face="Arial">usage
situation<font
face="Arial">s.<br>
<br>
<font face="Arial">
is there anything i
can do or any other
information i can
provide for help<font
face="Arial">
tracking what's
happenin<font
face="Arial">g
and how to avoid
it ? </font></font></font><br>
</font></font></font></font><br>
<br>
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