Hi! Today we turned of Spamdyke to see if it makes our e-mail server more stable. The server is running a plain, up-to-date CentOS 5.3 with SpamDyke 4.0.10 and Qmail from Qmailtoaster/Qmailtoaster Plus.
What we are seeing is 100+ hanging Spamdyke processing and corresponding defunct qmail-smtpd child processes. We haven't monitored the number of hanging processes, but when we get reports from our users about problems with slow e-mail sending/receiving that is what we find. Killing these hanging Spamdyke processes makes the e-mail speed-up. We do monitor the actual Qmal local/remote queue and it is less than 20 so the problem seems to be the connections in some way. It's all very weird because we shouldn't be near the max number of sockets, right? It might all be coincidences, but we have experienced the problem (and the fix) three times so far in 2010. Anyway, why aren't these Spamdyke processes stopping. (The time-out is 180 seconds and these processes are many hours/days old.) Thanks for any input. Regards, Hans PS! I might turn Spamdyke on again for a specific domain (and/or port) if you want to test it or want me to run some tests. _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
