> > but I have yet to pinpoint why it sometimes time-out with spamd
>
>Because it's overloaded and doesn't have enough RAM or CPU in it, or
>your SpamAssassin is badly configured? ClamAV is fairly quick so even
>with large files and attachments you shouldn't have any trouble with it;
>SpamAssassin with too many tests turned on or bad configuration can grow
>to hundreds of megs and choke a system. The network tests may also be
>slow as they wait for responses from the network...

I have seen CPU go pretty high- RAM is always abundant and swap as well-
and I have noticed in  'top' the TIME  for clam seems to increase at a much 
higher rate than any other process-

Why would this suddenly start occurring , is it realted to the surge in spam 
recently ?

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