On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 17:00 -0500, Chris wrote: > On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 08:42 -0500, Chris wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out why I'm having ridiculous scan times such as > > the above examples. Lower scan times such as in the 20 second range are > > the exception rather than the rule. I'm running bind as a local caching > > nameserver and it seems to be working correctly. I've just seen a ham > > that has a scantime=172.2. Could there be something else on the system > > that is affecting this? > > > > Any advice as to troubleshooting would be appreciated. > > > > I've started SA now with -D > > OPTIONS="-d -D -c -H -m 4 --max-conn-per-child=3 --min-children=1" > > While looking at my syslog I noticed the following: > > Sep 4 16:21:46 localhost spamd[15797]: prefork: periodic ping from > spamd parent > Sep 4 16:21:46 localhost spamd[15800]: prefork: periodic ping from > spamd parent > Sep 4 16:21:46 localhost spamd[15800]: prefork: sysread(9) not ready, > wait max 300 secs > Sep 4 16:21:46 localhost spamd[15797]: prefork: sysread(8) not ready, > wait max 300 secs > Awhile ago I logged out and logged back in again, I no longer am seeing the above and scan times have decreased considerably, ham - scantime=5.7 and for a spam that just came in scantime=1.6
Things seem back to normal, for now, though I'm not sure how long they'll last. Any idea what could be causing the above? Chris -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C
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