Paul Griffith wrote: > Greetings, > > Does any one have any suggestions for handling spam surges? We had a spam > mail surge and exim was getting connection timeout errors from the clamd > socket, for spamassassin we can increase the number of child processes to > handle more connections. > > Any best of practices out there ? > > A search of the mailing lists didn't find anything.
I use MTA load balancing, throttling based on load, and manually enabled global greylisting when surges show up. I prefer to not use greylisting but it sure works great when your system is getting slammed. The objective here is to avoid getting beyond the helo with unknown systems during heavy loads. dp _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
