Description of problem: run sa-learn on a ~300mb spam folder. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): spamassassin-3.0.0-3 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: $ ls -lh spam-recent -rw------- 1 joe joe 339M Nov 16 08:55 spam-recent $ sa-learn --showdots --spam spam-recent Actual results: all RAM consumed Expected results: Additional info:
Even with a <100mb spam folder it ate >1Gb of RAM before I killed it.
With -3.0.1-0.EL4: $ ls -lh spam-recent -rw------- 1 joe joe 91M Nov 16 08:55 spam-recent $ sa-learn --showdots --spam spam-recent ... got to: 8344 joe 25 0 943m 931m 6300 R 96.9 61.3 0:29.71 sa-learn before I killed it again.
Try to cut it to smaller pieces.
http://people.redhat.com/wtogami/temp/spamassassin/ Please test the fc3 RPM from here, which is 3.0.2 plus upstream patches. Some were related to memory consumption, but it may not be related to this issue.
3.0.3 has been released as a FC3 update which contains one fix for massive memory consumption, may be related to your problem. CLOSING. Open a new bug if you see this problem in 3.0.3.