Spamd indeed sucks up ram big time. My server is a PII-266, but I've loaded
it up with 512M of ram. It has a light load, and I haven't installed RDJ
yet, but I do use blacklists.
Be sure to check that your caching DNS server is operating properly. Mine
seemed to be working ok, but I was getting an error when I did:
# service named status
This is on CentOS4.
I had to modify "key" to "rndckey" in /etc/rndc.conf, and added
include "/etc/rndc.key";
at the end in place of the key definition there. All is well now.
Also be sure to change /etc/resolv.conf to use 127.0.0.1 as the first (or
only, if you're confident) nameserver.
When you
# dig somedomain.com
you should see that the request was answered by your caching server:
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
near the bottom of the reply.
Michael Amster wrote:
I hate responding to my posts, but here is what I think I figured out-
I use RulesDuJour script and I started adding some more in for use. I
did not realize how huge the blacklist script was. It caused my spamd
processes to heavily swap the server (it is slow and old and will be
replaced). This caused all sorts of spurious errors. I ditched
blacklist and blacklist_url and things are much happier now. Only run
those lists if you have lots of RAM or very few spamd children (I run
about 30 to keep up with my load on that box - they cannot have too big
a footprint).
-MA
Michael Amster wrote:
I have a qmailtoaster and it has been running well for a while. I
have had to restart the box and now I see some strange behavior:
1. Times to respond for smtpd are slow - it can take quite a while to
get the greeting - I have a concurrencyincoming set to 100 and do not
see that many qmail-smtpd processes
2. Spamd runs, but my mails are not being marked with [SPAM] - in fact
none of the previous headers are being set in messages. Logs look ok
for spamd/clamd - is there something else in simscan to look at? I am
getting local delivery, just no spam
Any help with #2 especially is welcome.
-MA
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