Multiple Kolab's php eat all the RAM

[Diego M. Vadell]

Hi

   I think I found it: when I send an email to 30 people inside the server 
(locals to the server) I get a lot of kolabmailfilter processess. Is it the 
intended way of doing things? 

On Tuesday 23 December 2008 18:07:41 Diego M. Vadell wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     I have several kolab 2.2. installations. Today one of them started to
> use all the RAM with several php processes. I had to restart it several
> times and then ssh to it as soon as it starts, in order to win a race with
> all the php processess that started to appear!
>
>    The only think I noticed were that in the mailq there were 4 mails, with
> a lot of recipients (all local).
>
>   Question: Does anyone knows what scenario could spawn hundreds of php
> processes?
>
> Before hanging, top looks like this:
> -----------------------
> top - 14:15:07 up 11 min,  2 users,  load average: 44.85, 26.53, 11.33
> Tasks: 165 total,   4 running, 161 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  0.7%us,  8.6%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id, 71.4%wa, 19.3%hi,  0.0%si, 
> 0.0%st Mem:    515492k total,   510556k used,     4936k free,      332k
> buffers Swap:   524280k total,   489328k used,    34952k free,   386208k
> cached
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  8347 kolab-n   18   0 13400 1300  840 D  1.8  0.3
> 0:00.57 /kolab/bin/php -c /kolab/etc/apache/php.ini -f
> /kolab/var/kolab-filter/scripts/kolabmailboxfilter.php -- 8268 kolab-n   18
>   0 78940  20m  20m D  1.4  4.1
> 0:00.75 /kolab/bin/php -c /kolab/etc/apache/php.ini -f
> /kolab/var/kolab-filter/scripts/kolabmailboxfilter.php -- 8292 kolab-n   16
>   0 78940  45m  45m D  1.4  9.1
> 0:00.83 /kolab/bin/php -c /kolab/etc/apache/php.ini -f
> /kolab/var/kolab-filter/scripts/kolabmailboxfilter.php -- 8334 kolab-n   16
>   0 78940  25m  25m D  1.3  5.1
> 0:00.64 /kolab/bin/php -c /kolab/etc/apache/php.ini -f
> /kolab/var/kolab-filter/scripts/kolabmailboxfilter.php -- 8317 kolab-n   18
>   0 78940  34m  34m D  0.9  6.8
> 0:00.53 /kolab/bin/php -c /kolab/etc/apache/php.ini -f
> /kolab/var/kolab-filter/scripts/kolabmailboxfilter.php -- 8297 kolab-n   16
>   0 78940  24m  24m D  0.8  4.8
> 0:00.85 /kolab/bin/php -c /kolab/etc/apache/php.ini -f
> /kolab/var/kolab-filter/scripts/kolabmailboxfilter.php -
> -------------------------
>
> Thanks in advance
>  - Diego