Replying off list -- will report back once we have solved. C
on 1/31/02 9:40 AM, Kirk Davis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I'm noticing a strange problem with spamc. > > I am running SA 2.01 using spamc,spamd, and spamass-milter with > sendmail 8.12.2. This is running on a FreeBSD 4.4 box. > > I'm trying this out on a test server before I set it up on our main > mail servers. This setup has to be able to handle a large volume of email > though it so I thought I would benchmark the performance first to see how it > scales. The servers I'm putting it on do not have any local accounts, they > just act as SMTP gateways to our Exchange our servers. This is why I'm > trying it with milter and not just using procmail. If there is a better way > I'm open to hearing it. > > This setup works fine at low volume but when I try and load it down > spamc seems to hang. I'm using a benchmarking utility called 'postal' to > test the setup. When spamc hangs I can see 3 or 4 spamc processses running > and 3 or 4 spamd processes. If I kill the one spamc process that has hung > then everything starts working again. > > Any ideas on what would be causing this or where to start debugging > it? Is there a debug flag I can turn on for spamc? I looked through the > code and couldn't see anything (I'm good with perl but my C is poor) > > --- Kirk > > Kirk Davis > Senior Network Analyst, ITS > Edmonton Public Schools > (780) 429-8308 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <<Kirk Davis.vcf>> > _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk