On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:16:51 -0400 "Daryl C. W. O'Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Josh Trutwin wrote: > > I've recently had a server experience some really slow spam > > processing - I'm not sure what's going on but I notice a lot of > > timeouts in the mail log: > > > > Aug 18 09:20:21 www spamd[27673]: timeout with empty $@ > > at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4/Mail/SpamAssassin/Timeout.pm line > > 182, <GEN16> line 1126. Aug 18 09:22:02 www spamd[27674]: > > timeout with empty $@ > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Debian linux - spamd 3.0.4 with pyzor/dcc/razor > > > > spamd running with: > > > > /usr/bin/spamd -d -D -q -x -H /etc/razor --max-children=12 > > --socketpath=/var/spool/spamassassin/spamd.sock -u spamd > > Unless you've got at least 600 or more MB of free RAM just for > spamd's use, you've got too many children and are swap > thrashing. Back of the --max-children number. I was getting the same results with less values - the box has 1 GB - more is on the way though. I disabled network tests with -L and things work great again so something along that line is the culprit. Josh
