You can try lowering your 'concurrencyincoming' limit. I believe that QmailToaster defaults to 100 and starts throttling how much mail comes in (thus being scanned by spamd/clamd). Try putting this file, /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming, to 50.
Thanks, Erik On 4/5/06, Dairenn Lombard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey there, > > On one of our toasters, we've had a situation (twice since it first went > online late last summer) where, the server's load average shoots over 50 > for no apparent reason. > > We seem to feel it might have something to do with simscan because when > we ran top, we just saw like ridiculous amounts of resources being used > by up spamd and clamd - they don't run on their own and are, rather, > called by simscan (as is my understanding). > > My question is, is there some way of throttling this? We had a number > of customers complaining about not being able to get their e-mail 'cause > of timeouts. It even took me 5 minutes to SSH into the server once this > had already begun, and a reboot was already tried. > > Any ideas, guys? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
