Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis process consuming >1GB RAM

Thanks for a tip, but this approach would be a bit problematic on our
site... several hundreds of thousands mails per day :-( But anyway, I'll
take a look at our Perl packages and report if I'll find something of
interest.

Mark Burdick wrote:
> Pavel,
>
> I've had this problem in the past... On my system, it turned out to be a
> problematic e-mail message that AMAVISD-NEW got "stuck" trying to
> unpack. What I did with mine was to [using Postfix] place all messages
> in the queue on hold before starting up my amavisd process. Then, I
> requeued everything, and started to release the hold on messages one at
> a time until the problem came back. Once I had identified the queue
> number of the problem message, I released the hold on all messages and
> place the problem message back on hold.
>
> Through the course of the day, I would try updating different Perl
> modules or other pieces of the system (including archiving utilities)
> and try the message again. At some point, the message no longer caused
> Amavsid to hang on it and it passed through.
>
> I don't know exactly what caused it to finally work. I do know that the
> message was ligitimate, and was sent from an address in Switzerland. I
> also know that it contained two attachments, which were image files.
>
> Hope that at least offers some thoughts on a troubleshooting approach.
>
> -Mark

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