At Wed Jan 14 17:54:19 2004, Todd Seeleman wrote: > > Greetings, > > I'm running spamd/spamc v 2.55 on a Compaq DS20 running Tru64 UNIX v > 5.1b. It processes ~ 5,500 pieces of email per day. Every week or so the > system slows to a point where I must reboot. I believe I've eliminated all > causes other than the spamd process. I've throttled it down to spamd -d -m > 2 and this has helped so far. Does anybody have any helpful info on this?
You don't mention the specification of the server you're using, and I don't know enough about Compaq harware to guess. But if the problem was caused by having excessive numbers of spamd processes running, then using "-m 2" is certainly going to help. I've seen this on a low-end Sparc we use at work for mail -- on odd occasions it would be deluged with messages which it would start to process. The box was running sendmail with a queue-runner kicking off every 2 minutes. Once it got up to 4 concurrent spamds running, the system would start swapping and slow right down. It was only just about usable -- fortunately it didn't actually need to be rebooted. The mail admin has since added "-m 3" to spamd and so far I haven't seen this happen again (though it's only been running a week with "-m 3" so far). Depending on how powerful the box is, and how much other work it's doing, you might be able to slowly increase the "-m" value -- if it's set too low you run the risk of having a mail backlog build up with the result that mail gets delayed. Martin -- Martin Radford | "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | men just upload their important stuff -o) Registered Linux user #9257 | on ftp and let the rest of the world /\\ - see http://counter.li.org | mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds _\_V ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
