At Thu Nov 27 22:06:18 2003, Dan Tappin wrote: > > Hi Shayne, > > Way ahead of you: > > http://mrtg.orourke.ca/firewall/cpu.html > > The yearly graph will show you when I first installed SA back in > September. The realy ugly flatline's are since Tuesday. These were > the periods today where I was hiding in the server room to avoind > the endless "the server is down" phone calls / comments. :^) > > I seem to have it resolved. I have reduced the maximum number of > concurent SMTP accept processes on my mail server and now things > seem to be ok. We also have seemed to have been flooded with spam > and viruses today which might have agrivated the issue.
The downside of that approach is that at peak times your server will start refusing connections. This is particularly bad if your users are using that server for outgoing mail, not just for incoming. A better option, if you're using spamd, is to use its -m option. That will limit how many concurrent copies of spamd you have running, which is the real problem. When you have the maximum number of spamd processes running, your mail will backlog slightly until the peak passes, but your server will continue accepting mail. Martin -- Martin Radford | "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | men just upload their important stuff -o) Registered Linux user #9257 | on ftp and let the rest of the world /\\ - see http://counter.li.org | mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds _\_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
