Spamd and Mailman services Constantly failing !!!

Spamd and Mailman services Constantly failing !!!


SpamAssassin service (spamd) service is failing due to some reason. When cpanel monitoring service finds spamd down, it restarts spamd and then send you alert email.But spamd is failing too often and so you get a lot of alerts.

You can start the service using the command /scripts/restartsrv_spamd from SSH.
Another possibility is that spamd is broken. Update cpanel software with /scripts/upcp --force from root SSH.

If the issue is still persisting, the main reason seems to be,If it is in a VPS when some resources (mainly memory and buffers) exhaust.
It would be better to check if the VPS is running out of resources.
If it is an OpenVZ vps you can check the file /proc/user_beancounters yourself.
Check if there is any non-zero failcount values. Failcount represents the number of times corresponding resource ran out.

You can cat the logs from the main hardware node :

(Hardwarenode)#cat /var/log/messages |grep 403 (Vps ID) |grep OOM |wc -l

It gives the number of times the vps 403 had ran out of resources(Memory)

You can also cat the logs inorder to further check the issue by :

(Hardwarenode)#cat /var/log/messages |grep 403 (Vps ID)

You can see logs as follows :
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Feb 3 13:41:54 linux7 kernel: [939759.629367] OOM killed process spamd (pid=671490, ve=403) exited, free=36243.
Feb 3 13:41:54 linux7 kernel: [939759.815495] OOM killed process spamd (pid=39470, ve=403) exited, free=32484.
Feb 3 13:41:54 linux7 kernel: [939759.851935] OOM killed process spamd (pid=671448, ve=403) exited, free=43210.
Feb 3 13:41:55 linux7 kernel: [939760.480391] OOM killed process mysqld (pid=428345, ve=403) exited, free=42749.
Feb 3 13:41:56 linux7 kernel: [939761.626820] OOM killed process named (pid=201837, ve=403) exited, free=40153.
Feb 3 13:41:57 linux7 kernel: [939762.734085] OOM killed process php (pid=428175, ve=403) exited, free=39938.
Feb 3 13:41:58 linux7 kernel: [939763.665735] OOM killed process spamassassin (pid=428435, ve=408) exited, free=50507.
Feb 4 16:58:50 linux7 kernel: [1037823.607551] OOM killed process spamd (pid=548164, ve=408) exited, free=35391.
435456 [0] DCSZ: 4639363 / 134217728 [0] OOMG: 242382 / inf [189] Dirty 0 Wback 0 Dche 4087 Prnd 966749
Feb 6 22:45:39 linux7 kernel: [1231132.091743] OOM killed process spamd (pid=721601, ve=408) exited, free=84250.
Feb 6 22:45:39 linux7 kernel: [1231132.091768] RAM: 130782 / 131072 [1147] SWAP: 127216 / 131072 [1147] KMEM: 37081088 / 268435456 [0] DCSZ: 4639363 / 134217728 [0] OOMG: 242382 / inf [190] Dirty 0 Wback 0 Dche 4088 Prnd 966749
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