RE: [SAtalk] hundreds of spamd processes spawning

[Robert Lacroix]

I think it's because your MTA issues a seperate request to spamd for each recpient in a single mail. When you have a mail that has 100 recpients your problem would occur.   /robert From: Michael P. Varre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Freitag, 26. Dezember 2003 20:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] hundreds of spamd processes spawning Thanks, I’ll give that a try…any idea why this might be happening to begin with?   From: Robert 'JFK' Lacroix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 12:32 PM To: Michael P. Varre Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] hundreds of spamd processes spawning   Start spamd with the argument -m 20, that maximizes the concurrently spawned instances to 20.   /robert   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael P. Varre Sent: Freitag, 26. Dezember 2003 16:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] hundreds of spamd processes spawning Good morning and happy holidays everyone!   I’m running spamd + vpopmail + qmailscanner + mysql + clamuko.  I have a problem where every once in a while hundreds of spamd processes are spawning.  It absolutely crushes the server.  I have determined it is not because of any large lists being sent/received to/from the box.  I have also determined it is not a spammer.  There aren’t really that many clients on the box, and it is dedicated for mail services.  No open relay, etc.    This is absolutely crushing the box.  The only way I can recover is if I kill the process in question (which is nearly impossible because of the resources being hogged completely up by all these processes) or by rebooting.   Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.   Im pretty much using a standard SA installation with startup flads –a –c and –d.        Thanks! mv