We have had a couple of instances recently where our mail server became severely overloaded, with many spamd processes running. One was on the 21st when dorkslayers.com went down. The other was yesterday for no apparent reason. In each case, we had around 150 spamd processes running, with 2.5 GB of swap in use on a machine with 250 MB of memory!
Each time I noticed that although there were around 150 spamd processes, there were only around 3 spamc processes. How is this possible? Could the spamc processes have timed out leaving the spamd processes running? Or could the mail have been processed and spamd is trying to do something else such as update the bayes database? Possibly related, in what way does spamc timeout? Does it require that the whole message be processed within the timeout, or just that some response has happened within the timeout time? What happens if spamc starts a spamd process and then times out? Is the spamd processes notified that it should quit, or is it just left running? Tom schulz Applied Dynamics Intl. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
