Further reconfiguration of MTA can handle this issues. Denying any other mail connections while load is high is also advisable. Delaying those connections is also another alternative while the server load is not in normal. You might want to check that email and restrict SA to scan email who has _THIS_ email size only and increase her SA children perhaps would somehow help.
-----Original Message----- From: Sebastian Ries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 11:00 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: SA crashes on higher load Hi there! I have running a Spamassassin SpamAssassin version 3.1.7 running on Perl version 5.8.8 (running on a Debian sarge, upgraded SA from etch) About once a week the spamd process crashes and the error message that occures in the maillog is: prefork: select returned -1! recovering: Bad file descriptor Mail delivering works fine but no more mail is scanned by SA :-( Restarting the SA gets rid of this but is there an update to prevent this? Regards Sebastian Ries -- ------------------------------------------------------------ DT Netsolution GmbH - Talaeckerstr. 30 - D-70437 Stuttgart Tel: +49-711-849910-36 Fax: +49-711-849910-936 WEB: http://www.dtnet.de/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
