Hi,
since you are using qmail, you should consider lowering the incoming concurrency along with the maxchildren Wolfgang Hamann >> Hello, >> >> I've some troubles with spamassassin. Sometimes (and i don't know why >> exactly) my server has high load (like 50 or 60 or more) so it's >> impossible to connect via ssh, everything crash (apache, qmail, vpopmail, >> etc...) and i have to go to the datacenter to reboot the server... and if >> i'm able to connect via ssh (after having waited 40 minutes...) i can see >> that perl or spamd are the processes which take the most part of the load >> (perl due to qmailscanner, who invoke spamassassin). I'm under a debian >> stable, i've installed spamassassin via package AND source... maybe it's >> because of this >>