Hi,
What this means there there are more incoming messages than spamd
daemon can handle.
You have you need to change the spamd --max-children to an higher
setting. You need also make sure you system can handle the extra
children processes so not to lock up your system due to an spam
attack. I was doing an incremental increase of 2 processes and
checking the logs until I got the proper setting for me. You should
set it so it does show the "--max-children setting, consider raising
it "once in awhile.
Depending on your operating system, the --max-children setting can be
several places. It took some help from the spamassassin mailing list
people to find you where it was on my system.
If your using Redhat ES 5, which I'm using, the setting should be in
/etc/sysconfig/spamassaassin. Below is sample of this file with
--max-children set to 10:
SPAMDOPTIONS="-x -u spamd --max-children=10 -H /home/spamd -d
On some RedHat Linux systems is in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamd
On Debian systems it is in the /etc/init/spamd
There many other operating systems so there are other places so you
can set the --max-children for spamd at.
I hope this helps,
Frank
I see in my log the following what does it mean ??
Fri Mar 7 21:07:12 2008 [11800] info: prefork: child states: BBBBBBB
Fri Mar 7 21:07:12 2008 [11800] info: prefork: server reached
--max-children setting, consider raising it
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Agnello Dsouza
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