On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:39:18PM +0200, Chr. von Stuckrad wrote: > So may be something like this hit us too... > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:57:14PM -0400, Scott Lambert wrote: > > If spamc can't connect to spamd, (all slots full on the spamd server), > > it just passes the message through. If spamd dies while running under > > something like DJB's daemontools, one to several messages could get > > through while the spamd daemon is being restarted. > > > > You probably need more spamd hardware/time slots. > > I had exactly that idea and hacked the script which calls > my 'spamc -c -d somehost' to loop through a few more hosts, > if the result of my 'spamc -c' is '0/0' (which seems to indicate > 'no connect to the spamd'). > > The result was surprising! > > If the spamc could not reach the first host. > ALL hosts could not be reached for a short time!
Did you ping the hosts from your script? Or just run spamd against the other hosts? If the pings don't work, it sounds like you have network issues. I use a "spamassassin-rr" with mutliple A records to the various spamd hosts. spamc walks the list until it finds one that works or hits the end of the list. Sometimes I get hit by enough spammers in a short period of time to fill all those hosts. I have -m set low enough that the machines don't go deep into swap. I only have around 2000 users. Probably 65% of all incoming mail is spam here. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
