Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:23:33 -0800 From: Andrew Moran <sneepre@me.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SpamAssassin/Perl eating enormous amounts of memory? Message-ID: <8806A36E-A839-481A-8E59-9F79DEB6B51A@me.com>
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Hey guys, After having lots of problems with memory and 7.1/ZFS, I first switched everything to 64-bit (amd64), and then I had a new problem, so I eventually gave up and switched back to UFS (saying on amd64 distro/ports), but I'm still having memory issues. My current one is that SpamAssassin seems to be periodically eating up all my memory, causing the server to slow to a crawl until the kernel kills the process and then I have enormous amounts of free memory. Rinse, repeat. I thought maybe it had something to do with the fact that I was using multithreaded perl (which I wasn't before I jumped into 7.1/ZFS), but rebuilding perl (and all its' dependencies) without threads didn't help. I have 8GB of physical memory and 16GB of swap memory. Here is a line from top showing perl taking 21 gigs of memory: 6035 0 1 76 0 21190M 791M pfault 0 1:20 4.69% perl5.8.9 The error messages I get when this is happening look like: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed pid 6035 (perl5.8.9), uid 1030, was killed: out of swap space Obviously I have a memory leak somewhere, but I can't tell where. I upgraded to the latest port (synced and compiled today). I spent the day doing the "portupgrade -f R r p5-Mail-SpamAssassin" to make sure everything was rebuilt. But alas, the problem persists. Has anyone heard of this? Or any pointers on what I can do to figure out what is causing it? Your advice is much appreciated. --Andy
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