Replying off list -- will report back once we have solved.

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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>>
> 


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