I run spamd on a machine of it's own. the spamc is on a separate windows computer (actually it's winspamc). it's version 3 of spamd. everything was working fine until a week or so ago and then things started to back up regularly. I'd look in the morning and thousands of files were backed up on my mailserver waiting to be checked by spamd. to fix it, I'd turn off spam checking for a few minutes, let the spool clear, and then turn it back on. things would be fine for a day or so and then the problem would repeat.
I'd had rbl checking turned off on my mailserver feeling spamd should take care of that, but now I've turned rbl checking back on ahead of spamd to reduce it's load. I think the rbl's are catching spam that spamd was passing but that's another story. that helped but after a few days the problem reoccurred. so I looked at the number of children running on spamd and increased the m parameter from 5 to 15. again, that helped for a few days but yesterday there were 600 or so in the spool. I looked at the log on the spamd computer and it seemed to be stopped. I cleared the windows spool, restarted the spamd computer, and things returned to normal. what would cause spamd to just stop? does it need to be cleared out periodically with some kind of timer that stops and starts the service at intervals? is there some other parameter that needs to be adjusted to keep the individual processes from filling up? Frank M. Cook
