[SAtalk] hundreds of spamd processes spawning

[Michael P. Varre]

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