I think I figured it out already. Another helpful user explained that spamc passes the info to spamd. So it would stand to reason that if I have 10 spamd children (each sucking resources) then spamc is going to accept more mail, and queue more mail and suck mor resources as you mention. I lowered the children to 5, and my problem has gone away. I guess I will just ignore the maillog warning about children and let it do its job like it should!
on 12/6/05 6:16 PM, JamesDR at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> So a few times a day I end up having to stop my sendmail on my linux mail >> server. Here is the back story. I was running 2.64, with procmail and >> recently upgraded to 3.1. I started the 3.1 with >> /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m10 >> >> Which works great, but I think the old spamassassin is still running because >> when the 10 children get filled up, I start to get a ton of: >> /usr/bin/spamc >> >> Whats going on here? 2 versions running? What do I do to get rid of the >> spamc process, and keep it from spawning and then bringing my server to its >> knees... >> >> >> > Well, if in fact, your spamd is really busy, and it can't accept more > connections, spamc may be waiting around to try again. I'm not 100% > positive on the behavior of spamc (I use my own app to connect to spamd > from 'doze.) The way mine works, is it will try again after a few > seconds of waiting. This may be the cause here. One way to find out if > you have more than one version is to search the system for all > references to any spamd/c/assassin and check the versions. This is very > tedious, but it gets the end result. If when you do /usr/bin/spamc -V > what do you get? Along with /usr/bin/spamd -V and the same for > spamassassin (where you have that installed also.) The do spamc -V, > spamd -V, spamassassin -V and see what the system 'thinks' the path is > to the programs. > > What you describe, to me, seems a normal action when all the connections > are filled. > > > Then again, I could be completely wrong :-D ____________________ The Help Guy Nantucket.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.nantucket.net/help 508-228-6777
