Spamd powered to 100% and kill -9 does not work

[graffix]

Hello,

we have massive problems with spamassassin:

i see under top that spamd is running over 140 minutes with 99,99% of cpu.
We stopped SA but the spamd process is still persist. kill -9 <pid> doesn´t work and spamd is killing the cpu.

How can we delete this process without a hardware restart?

Thanks for helps

 

[jamesyeeoc]

Try doing all the following (in order):

/etc/init.d/spamassassin stop

killall -9 spamd (that's a number nine)

killall -g spamd (that's a lowercase gee letter)

other than that, personally I'd reboot the server.

 

[graffix]

Hello,

witg -g (gee) i got invalid signal specification?

thanks for help

 

[jamesyeeoc]

do a 'killall --help' or 'info killall' and see what yours has as an option to kill a 'group' of processes.

On all my RedHat boxes the -g (gee) option works.

Or you could try repeating the killall -9 spamd (number nine) until all spamd processes are killed.

Use ps -ax | grep 'spamd' to see how many spamd processes are running at any given time.

Also see this thread for additional things to check once you get your server back under control: (see AtomicRocketTurtle's post)

http://forum.plesk.com/showthread.php?threadid=24676