Matthew R Anderson wrote:
Hi Matthew
It's a dual PIII 1.26ghz with 2GB of RAM running debian 3.0 with SA 2.63[...]
This machine receives mail via Postfix and has been happily receiving mail[...]
I'm not the quickest with my ninjitsu, but I've been pretty good at solving problems with this software. I've tried limiting the spamd child processes (-m 32) and tinkering with the spamc timeout (-t 5), and nothing at all, and each time when traffic spikes heavily the machine crashes and requires a hard reboot.
On a dual Xeon 2.4GHz here spamd is limited to 10 processes, and I have never seen them up at the same time ('ps -ef |grep spamd' reported no more than 3 at peak hours).
What is the average message process time? (there's a tool to generate a simple report)
What is the inbound traffic (msg/h or peak)?
Did you limit the size of messages to be processed by spamd? We have 250k
I can generate any further specifics as needed. This is a high priority fix and I'm getting sick of rebooting this machine! :) Thanks,
What is the kernel of your Debian? 2.4.18 by any chance?
Depending upon your incoming traffic you can tweak Postfix's maximum inbound SMTP connections in master.cf.
HTH, Paolo (online 7-15z / 8-17 Europe -)
