Topic: 5.6 U4 Memory @ 97% of 512mb

[chare]

I have read some of the other posts about the memory usage and how "it's a good thing" but I have to say as the SME server is getting from 22% usage to 90% we experience no problems, but from 92 - 98% we have mail that does not get delievered, very sluggish performance of the gui.  We have mail stuck in the queue, sysmon graphs that don't complete being created and have had a problem remotely rebooting the server from the server-manager (had to do it commandline).   We are using a P3 700 with 512 ram and 60 gig hard drive, a T1 line with 12 mail accounts and 14 users for web surfing also a win2k machine is the domain controller and the wins server , dhcp , dns server so the load is not on the SME . The SME is in server-gateway mode and hosts a  very low usage static home page but it does run spamassasin and mailfront rbl lists,is this too much for this machine? The server takes about 3/4 of a day to get  back to 97%.  When it gets to 97% not all mail is bogged down some goes right thru but others are not delievered until the SME is rebooted.  Can anyone shed some light on this for me.  I do not recall every having this problem with 5.5 or 5.12

Below is a message one of the users sent me:

-----Original Message-----
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [mailto:MAILER-DAEMON@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 10:13 AM
To: redacted @earthlink.net
Subject: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours

    **********************************************
    **      THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY      **
    **  YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE  **
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The original message was received at Mon, 5 May 2003 06:07:12 -0700
(PDT)
from conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.54]

   ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -----


   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... Deferred: Connection timed out with
mail.redacted .com.
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 3 days old


This is a sample message when the server is running at 98%



Chare

[Bill Talcott]

Run "top" at the command line, and use "M" (case-sensitive) to sort by memory usage.

Are you using "spamassassin" or spamd/spamc? I'm showing spamd using 14.1% on our 5.5U6. We only have a 233MHz Cyrix MII-PR300, 128MB, 4GB for about 20 users (usually 10 on constantly).

Have you specified to the SME that the Win2k server is handling WINS (HowTo on my contribs.org space) and DNS, and disabled DHCP (Services contrib panel)?

I agree that those numbers seem really high. 5.6 is more demanding, but that seems to be quite a bit more server than we have, but quite a bit slower...

[PC]

Are the addresses supposed to have a space?

redacted @earthlink.net
redacted @redacted .com
mail.redacted .com

Typically windows machines truncate every thing
after the space in addresses.

Perhaps your high overhead is caused by your server
trying to resolve incomplete addresses?

At any rate, check your log files for a consistent pattern

[chare]

Here is the top with an M sort.   I just don't get why this is filling up.  btw this is 97% of memory and it only takes a little more than 1 day to get here.

Any other Ideas?

Chare

 5:28pm  up 2 days,  6:24,  2 users,  load average: 0.10, 0.10, 0.04
99 processes: 96 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.1% user,  0.3% system,  0.0% nice, 99.4% idle
Mem:   514416K av,  487704K used,   26712K free,       0K shrd,   91748K buff
Swap:  265032K av,       0K used,  265032K free                  206596K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 2092 squid     15   0 17256  16M  1284 R     0.0  3.3   3:22 squid
 1751 root      15   0 14880  14M  1840 S     0.0  2.8   0:07 spamd
 1673 www       15   0  8092 8092  5616 S     0.0  1.5   0:01 httpd
 1667 www       16   0  8068 8068  5608 S     0.0  1.5   0:03 httpd
 1669 www       15   0  8068 8068  5568 S     0.0  1.5   0:03 httpd
 1664 www       15   0  8048 8048  5616 S     0.0  1.5   0:02 httpd
 1666 www       15   0  8044 8044  5568 S     0.0  1.5   0:01 httpd
 1671 www       16   0  8044 8044  5552 S     0.0  1.5   0:01 httpd
 1665 www       17   0  8024 8024  5620 S     0.0  1.5   0:02 httpd
 1672 www       15   0  7972 7972  5540 S     0.0  1.5   0:01 httpd
 7740 www       16   0  7972 7972  5556 S     0.0  1.5   0:01 httpd
 6543 www       15   0  7948 7948  5588 S     0.0  1.5   0:01 httpd
23235 www       16   0  7812 7812  5528 S     0.0  1.5   0:00 httpd
 1668 www       15   0  6984 6984  5516 S     0.0  1.3   0:00 httpd
 1670 www       15   0  6744 6744  5460 S     0.0  1.3   0:00 httpd
 2389 root      16   0  6192 6192  1416 S     0.0  1.2   0:00 console
 1661 root      15   0  5316 5316  4884 S     0.0  1.0   0:00 httpd
 2051 mysql     15   0  5120 5120  2068 S     0.0  0.9   0:00 mysqld
 2102 mysql     15   0  5120 5120  2068 S     0.0  0.9   0:00 mysqld
 2103 mysql     15   0  5120 5120  2068 S     0.0  0.9   0:00 mysqld
 2138 mysql     16   0  5120 5120  2068 S     0.0  0.9   0:00 mysqld
 2387 dns       16   0  4440 4440  1884 S     0.0  0.8   0:00 named