Hi,
about a week ago my server started experiencing load problems and
eventually closed all connections. It is running at an ISP and has
lots of software preconfigured including spam assassin configured by
the ISP. There are currently two problems: spamd is nearly
monopolising the CPU but also the tcprcvbuf eventually get used up;
but I suspect the two are related. As I did not configure the system
I am have to working my way through but it looks like a default
install. I could not find anything on the FAQ relating to this
specifically apart from the reference to max-children (set to 1 in
this case).
It doesn't look like there are a lot of e-mails to process. The setup
is Debian with spamd being called by as an Exim transport.
These are the active rules
vs171127:/usr/share/spamassassin# ls -l
total 552
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6013 Jun 30 2005 10_misc.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1600 Jun 30 2005 20_anti_ratware.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8193 Jun 30 2005 20_body_tests.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1608 Jun 30 2005 20_compensate.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12078 Jun 30 2005 20_dnsbl_tests.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15695 Jun 30 2005 20_drugs.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11263 Jun 30 2005 20_fake_helo_tests.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27706 Jun 30 2005 20_head_tests.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15482 Jun 30 2005 20_html_tests.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10934 Jun 30 2005 20_meta_tests.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22094 Jun 30 2005 20_phrases.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4961 Jun 30 2005 20_porn.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14134 Jun 30 2005 20_ratware.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5027 Jun 30 2005 20_uri_tests.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2329 Jun 30 2005 23_bayes.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9112 Jun 30 2005 25_body_tests_es.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2733 Jun 30 2005 25_hashcash.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2299 Jun 30 2005 25_spf.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4698 Jun 30 2005 25_uribl.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52288 Jun 30 2005 30_text_de.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40677 Jun 30 2005 30_text_fr.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57934 Jun 30 2005 30_text_nl.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34798 Jun 30 2005 30_text_pl.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29369 Jun 30 2005 50_scores.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6882 Jun 30 2005 60_whitelist.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 939 Jun 30 2005 65_debian.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101479 Jun 30 2005 languages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18944 Jun 30 2005 triplets.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1531 Jun 30 2005 user_prefs.template
This is from top:
3796 web1p2 39 15 46764 42m 4252 R 65.2 0.7 144:06.98 spamd
and this is a check of the tcprc use
tcprcvbuf 481548 1896072 1884024 3681759 148967
(machine was rebooted this morning)
Is it possible to get more information from spamd about why it's
taking so long? Thanks for any help.
Charlie
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