Good morning Sam,

actually we had dnscache running on the mailservers, but an external
bind nameserver (okay, one hop) answers faster the dnscache - just  for
the knowledge base :)
And the timeouts seem to have come from an RSM module, which is doing the
intervlan routing and was close to/beyond capacity.
We just moved everything directly onto the routers and we have no
problems anymore.
I`m not to deep into routing, but i guess packets from/to port 25 are
the lowest priority and so get dumped first. Still have to recheck in
peak times though.

If it looks good, I will go to 3.1.5 again and keep you updated just to
make sure it isn`t a spamdyke problem.




Mit freundlicher Empfehlung
Ulrich Eckardt

Speedbone Internet & Connectivity GmbH
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sam Clippinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "spamdyke users" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 6:31 AM
Subject: Re: [spamdyke-users] smtp plugged with spamdyke 3.1.5


If memory serves, you can't increase the incoming concurrency limit
above 200 unless you've patched qmail to make that possible.  You could
be hitting the limit even though you've set the value to 1024.

When your server stops accepting connections, are you seeing any errors
in your logs?  Do the running spamdyke processes consume a lot of CPU or
memory?  If you enable full logging, do those logs show anything to
indicate where the processes are becoming "stuck"?

One important thought: have you tried installing a caching name server
on your mail server?  That's usually the single biggest thing you can do
to improve performance.

-- Sam Clippinger

Ulrich Eckardt wrote:
> Hi Sam et all,
>
> just wanted to let you know that a lot of customers complained about
> timeouts when trying to connect to the smtp port after I upgraded to
> 3.1.5 (from 3.1.0)
> I tested everything for about a week - all possible config, other
> programs, etc. but the only thing that helped was installing 3.1.0 again.
>
> We have set the concurreny incoming to a max of 1024 and that limit was
> never reached. A count of actuall spamdyke processes came up with about
> 50 to 200 simultanious runs, but the ability to send or get dropped
> didn´t seem to corralate to higher amounts of spamdykes running.
>
> I checked everything else (qmail-smtpd in general, clamd, spamc,
> whatever) only 3.1.0 solved the problem. Since spamdyke really is agreat
> piece of software, I just wanted to inform you, maybe you can find
> whatever makes the difference.
>
> Thanks - Ulrich
>
>
>
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