I a keep received the email as below every 5 min: spamd failed @ Fri Jul 31 09:29:04 2009. A restart was attempted automagically. Service Check Method: [check command]
Cmd Service Check Raw Output: Spamd is not running
i have this really annoying issue i'm hoping you can help with.
it seems the spamd child process gets stuck and causes 100% cpu usage. but this doens't just happen randomly, its only for this single user account. e.g. take a look at top output:
the 93 is 93% cpu usage. 40:58 is how long the process has been running, 40 minutes and counting (i just killed it though). and all it tells me its running spamd child. it usually dies after a few hours but only after causing 200% cpu usage (100% on both cpus) and making my server load skyrocket. This happens at least twice daily at no set times.
this user isn't a spammer. no scripts, no mail queue generation, no email accounts even.
root@server [~]# service exim restart Shutting down clamd: [ OK ] Shutting down exim: [ OK ] Shutting down antirelayd: [ OK ] Shutting down spamd: [ OK ] Starting clamd: [ OK ] Starting exim-26: [ OK ] Starting exim: [ OK ] Starting exim-smtps: [ OK ] Starting antirelayd: [ OK ] Starting spamd: [1814] warn: server socket setup failed, retry 1: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use [1814] warn: server socket setup failed, retry 2: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use [1814] error: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use
spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use
I tried forced exim update, restarted xinetd, nothing works.
Anyone have a complete tutorial from start to finish on installing spamd as a smtp relay server/gateway? Im looking for some good doccumentation on this all i can find is just the spamd install guide but thats it. Im not even sure if i need postfix etc on the machine to run I have no idea.
1. what are the requirements
2. how to install and compile spamd
3. how to configure your mail servers to accept only mail from smtp relay and setup your mx records accordingly.
I'm having a problem with one user account, every 5-10 minutes a spamd process of this user gets locked using 60-90% cpu and never ends. If I don't kill the process another one does the same and they all get locked causing very high loads
I reinstalled exim but it did nothing
The problem persisted even when this user's account was suspended
It may have already been covered, but i have searched and cannot find a solution to the following.
I have a few Shared hosting servers using Cpanel. The biggest use of resource is spamd.
Is there a way of setting up a spamd server, ie not using Cpanel so that this server purely does the spam checking then passes it back to which ever Cpanel server it came from.
I have done this using postfix, but I'm new to the whole exim / Cpanel thing.
I have been using my Server for a decent while, All of a sudden of the last month it has decided that it wants to play a game.
"Spamd" keeps failing and automagically restarts.
It restarts and works, But then Fails once again a few hours later. One morning I woke up to 7 error messages with the same service. By Restarting Exim it resolves the issue but it happens hours later. I have tried mostly of what I can think of.
Does anyone have any other thoughts on this issue and how it can be resolved?
I have a VPS. And have had an issue both when it was 1Gig and now I recently downgraded it to 768m, because I am moving some sites to a dedicated.
However, the part I am having trouble grasping is that when I look at graphs from Munin, it will typically always show 200-400MB free memory (and free -m and top agrees with munin), but Munin shows 'committed' memory that is above the total Ram on the VPS and once the 'committed' ram exceeds the VPS limit, processes start failing.
So, why is 'committed' memory exceeding the RAM on my VPS, when Munin, free -m and top all show there is free memory available?
Code: root@server [~]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 768 449 318 0 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 449 318 Swap: 0 0 0 Here's a graph that munin produces that shows the 'committed' memory exceeding the total memory. [url]
I am pretty sure that the following entries in the logs are not good and I would like to resolve this issue. I have been reading on Google for several hours straight looking for answers and have come up short.
[/var/log]# grep -i -C4 failed maillog | tail -18 Jul 29 10:12:29 bamboo spamd[31310]: spamd: setuid to root succeeded Jul 29 10:12:29 bamboo spamd[31310]: spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to nobody Jul 29 10:12:29 bamboo spamd[31310]: spamd: processing message <GTUBE1.1010101@example.net> for root:99 Jul 29 10:12:29 bamboo spamd[31310]: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.bamboo.site.com.31310 for /.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: No such file or directory Jul 29 10:12:29 bamboo spamd[31310]: spamd: identified spam (1000.0/5.0) for root:99 in 0.0 seconds, 834 bytes. Jul 29 10:12:29 bamboo spamd[31310]: spamd: result: Y 999 - GTUBE,NO_RECEIVED,NO_RELAYS ....
i've noticed a number of times in the past few weeks where the spamd process gets stuck (apache 2 server / whm) with a single user name running the process. there is no spam being sent out, no major incoming influx of mail either - the process is just stuck but consumes 100% of cpu and runs for ages before it terminates itself.
My nobody_check is killing a process that seems to be o.k. but I'm not sure. The process is running /usr/bin/perl-bin which I never heard of. I thought it was /usr/bin/perl
Should I be concerned? Again, I don't know what /perl-bin is.
I have just moved my sites from shared host to a vps. After several initial problems (cpanel issue, config not set up correctly, memory spikes and sites down every morning due to backup and stats) I thought everything was going to be ok. hmm.
My server load starts off fine first thing (less than 1) then creeps up nearly 1 per hour, ie been 3.5 hours now and it is at 2.57. Sites are ok at the moment but yesterday load got up to nearly 7 and sites were extremely slow.
CPU usage is HIGH for one site and goes up very quickly throughout the day. Yesterday it reached well over 90%. First thing today it was already amber and showing 14%. It is now 70.54% and shows below it :
Top Process %CPU 80.2 spamd child Top Process %CPU 79.8 spamd child Top Process %CPU 79.4 spamd child
I have a ticket open and they (Liquid Web) they are not sure what the deal is, but are apparently monitoring it to see if they can isolate the cause of the problem. But that was a couple of days ago and now the ticket is due for closure.
I telephoned them (expensive as I'm in the UK!) and raised my concerns, but was just told that everything looked ok on the vps, cpu usage was in fact not high and to ignore the warnings.
So, I am posting here to see if anybody can help me get to the root of this.
I understand that spamd child is to do with email / spam assassin?
My problem is that this is the first vps I have had and don't have a clue now where to go or what to do.
Anybody understand about spamd child that can explain it to a poor dumb blonde and how to fix it?
I just got a new server Dual E5520 with 6GB RAM, SAS 15k rpm raid10. It's running well. However, the memory usage is just around 2.5GB, even when I have more traffic. Here is the kernel info
Quote:
# uname -a Linux server2.[url]2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 7 10:35:59 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Any idea that we can put more content into memory?
I have a 512mb DV server with Mediatemple, which I am running 24 (ish) domains off (most of them static websites) and a teamspeak server. I would say MAX theres 10 users online at a time)
Now, I know its running out of memory because i get frequent QoS Alerts in plesk (kmemsize is apparently the memory size):
Oct 01, 2009 11:52:57 AMBlack zonekmemsize
I have attached my results (when I did top).
My questions are:
1. Should I be expecting to be out of memory running what I am?
2. Is there a way to see the problem domains (memory wise)?
3. Are there any ways I can reduce the memory? (I have followed this already: [url]
4. Where is the memory usage coming from (I am finding it very hard to understand TOP)
I am hoping someone with experience of these things can comment on memory usage on my VPS partition. The master server on which my partition sits seems to be running at full memory usage and I'm getting lots of fork and mutex errors in apache causing apache to crash several times a day.
I'm running Invision Power Board on there with an average of 100 users in the last 15 mins during most of the day.
oomguarpages and privmpages are reported in 4KB blocks.
Hello everyone.i run LAMP on a dedicated server at theplanet.I have a small vbulletin forum.
I m planning to move to a new server.Just a quick question.for my new hardware,do i give more emphasis to ram or cpu...i will be getting 2 gb at the minimum.
SO,is LAMP dependant more on cpu resources or ram?
I previuosly have a forum hosted on a VPS with a 512 MB RAM (OpenVZ) and at that time it was only using 300MB of ram during peak time but the server was always down due to harware failures so I move to a new host this time Using Xen with a 768 RAM now it is using all the RAM available which is double the ram that it uses before. Is it really normal for a XEN vps to consume more memory than on a VPS using OpenVZ?
Drive Space Critical on server Drive Critical: /dev/simfs (/) is 91% full
When i check the whm I see
cpsrvdfailed exim (exim-4.68-1_cpanel_maildir)up ftpdup httpd (2.2.8 (Unix))up imapup mysql (4.1.22-standard)up named (9.3.3rc2)up popup Server Load0.11 (2 cpus) Memory Used38 % Swap Used0.00 % Disk /dev/simfs (/) 91 %
what i dont understand is where did it go. I dont really have much traffic and nothing was uploaded or downloaded. I dont have any automatic backups enabled. How do I get it back to the normal 40%
I do notice i have alot of cpu usage Top Process%CPU 77.4gzip Top Process%CPU 76.2gzip Top Process%CPU 75.9gzip
Which is also confussing to me because I am the only user. I didnt do any backups didnt have any major traffic. And my disk space "memory used" didnt change.
