The spamd's run in a parent/child configuration. The more childs asking for the parent to scan viruses, the more the parent will work. Eventually eating 100% of the cpu. The only way to fix this is to lower how many childs will be asking the parent to scan, and that is by lowering the concurrent incoming e-mail :)
Erik On 4/6/06, Dairenn Lombard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I asked my boss, and he said that the problem was there was one > particular instance of spamd that was drawing almost 100% of the CPU's > time. That doesn't appear to be something we could fix by lowering the > number of messages the server will try to process at any given moment. > > How can we throttle it so that a single instance of spamd can bring the > loads up to 45-55+? > > Thanks! > > Dairenn > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Erik Espinoza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:28 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Load levels occasionally skyrocket > > > > > > 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] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
