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Spammers ought to be shot

Last night I had the idea that it would be nice to login to one of my servers (beastie.thefraggle.com) and grab a look at the squid configuration I wrote a while back to load balance my website, there was a slight problem with that, however; The server was inaccesible.

I’ve now found out that thanks to spammers, exim was using up so much system resource that the server had started swapping, and even running out of swap space!

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April 9, 2007 at 12:53 pm Comments (0)