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sendmail-mta work over 29.18% of memory

Posted February 21, 2017 1.3k views
UbuntuApache

Hello in graph new version, seems sendmail-mta work over 29.18% of memory, but apart spam on my wordpress websites i don’t use a lot sendmail....
How i can make a check about memory consuption by sendmail

thanks for help

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hansen February 21, 2017

Others say this can happen when the queue gets clogged with messages.
Have a look at the answer here: http://serverfault.com/questions/615116/abnormal-sendmail-activity-using-up-the-server-memory-on-my-ubuntu-12-04-server

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  • Stew February 21, 2017

    Nice thank you it’s a good place to start!
    I did the following:

    with command

    sendmail -O QueueSortOrder=none -Am -bp

    Total requests: 136906

    with command

    sendmail -O QueueSortOrder=none -Ac -bp

    Total requests: 549

    Instruction

    Stop Sendmail

    service sendmail stop

    rm /var/spool/mqueue/*

    about error /bin/rm: Argument list too long use command: find . -name '*' | xargs rm

    If you want to remove messages in waiting, use:

    rm /var/spool/mqueue-client/*.

    Restart Sendmail

    service sendmail start
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Stew February 25, 2017

Plus if you use Wordpress is a nice idea disable comments for non registered users!

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