Re: spamd is dying

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 at 21:37 -0400, 2audrey@sympatico.ca confabulated:

>> I start spamd like this:
>>
>> /usr/bin/spamd -r /var/run/spamd.pid \
>> -d --username=defang --max-spare=8 --min-children=10 --max-children=45
>>
>
> I'll try some of those params. Certainly, i should bump up the max-children
> from 5 and see if that helps.

Keep in mind, the paramenters mentioned above starting with --max and --min are controlling factors in how much system memory SA will take up. Our filter server has 12 gigs of ram. Thus, I have this defined:

   --min-children=10 --max-children=40 --min-spare=20 --max-spare=22

> One thing that just jumped out at me is that this init script has -H, which
> expects a directory as an argument:
>
> -H [dir], --helper-home-dir[=dir] Specify a different HOME directory

And as the docs state later in the man page:

   "By specifying no argument, spamd will use the spamc caller's home     directory instead."

So, if you are calling spamc, the username that calls spamc will have it's home directory used instead.

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> Maybe that has something to do with this. I'll drop it (or should i give it
> "/var/spool/spamassassin"?) and see if that works.

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