On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, brad wrote: > Has anyone seen the issue where the server seems to run fine for a few > hours, and then the load average on the MTA starts rejecting incoming > emails? When I ps -axx I see serveral hundred procmail processes, > dozens of qpopper processes and sendmail is also trying to process the > queue. > > Suggestions would be welcomed for FreeBSD 4.4 machine.
No, I don't see that. But do you see lots of spamd processes? Folks have mentioned that there are procmail locking issues, among other things. If you see tons of spamd processes, using CPU, then there is some test that isn't terminating. If you have gobs of qpopper processes hanging out it sounds like you need faster disk I/O ... -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk