On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Some emails have a scantime of more than 900 seconds. > > I do not see a relation to a huge load on the SpamAssassin Servers > (I have 2 of them). The timeout problems happen when there is > small load (10 out of 20 spamds marked Busy) as well as when there > are 45 spamds forked with 35 marked Busy.
That really smells like swap thrashing. How much memory is in your SA servers, and what does procinfo / top report for swap used vs. swap available when things are going pear-shaped? -- John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Users mistake widespread adoption of Microsoft Office as the development of a standard document format. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 days until Albert Einstein's 128th Birthday