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sendmail-mta work over 29.18% of memory

Posted on February 21, 2017
Stew

By Stew

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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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

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

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