[CentOS] memory leaking?? kernel problem?

Timothy Sandel timothy at jupiter.stcl.edu
Sat Jun 11 05:01:00 UTC 2005


On Friday 10 June 2005 07:29 pm, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu wrote:
> List, I have the two servers  CentOS  4.0 (running postfix, mailscanner) on
> this hardware: HP netserver 2000, PIII - 1GHz, 512 ram, two Hdd  SCSI - 36
> GB (RAID 1), I have monitored this server for a couple of  months and I've
> seen that the memory used is increasing every week until it reaches all
> available memory and the server crashes.... at this point mailscanner
> crashes or sometimes the server gets freezed....my question is?
>
> Is this a memory leak?
>
> I 've always used this combination (mailscanner, postfix on Whitebox) and
> never got a problem, but  when I upgrade my system to CentOS (kernel 2.6)
> this problem began..
>

Are you running spamassassin?  I had the same problem after upgrading to v3 of 
sa which rh4/c4 ships with.

> can you help me?
>
> regards
>
> Israel



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