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April 01, 2004
Well that was fun....
About noon today Pacific time I noticed that I could no longer access my personal mail server for my domain. That server, a Debian Woody machine, also happens to run SpamAssassin, MySQL, and Apache for some test pages I am playing with. I also recently tweaked my SA rules to be much more aggressive which added quite a bit to the RAM used per spamd process.
I was silly enough to put this blog up on that same server on top of all of this. Needless to say, that was a bit much for an elderly rackmount server with only a 300Mhz CPU and 192MB RAM. It was still running, but was totally out of RAM and swap space, and was very unresponsive til I killed off Apache and SpamAssassin and cleaned things up a bit.
Now that I reduced the max number of httpd and spamd processes that it'll launch, and cut back on some of the larger SA rulesets I had added, things appear to be working well again. Time to move MT on to a bit faster box, methinks.
Posted by Kevin Railsback at April 1, 2004 09:44 PM
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