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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by ha...@t-online.de on 2006/07/25 23:21:54 UTC

Re: High load on my server


Hi,

since you are using qmail, you should consider lowering the incoming concurrency
along with the maxchildren

Wolfgang Hamann

>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've some troubles with spamassassin. Sometimes (and i don't know why
>> exactly) my server has high load (like 50 or 60 or more) so it's
>> impossible to connect via ssh, everything crash (apache, qmail, vpopmail,
>> etc...) and i have to go to the datacenter to reboot the server... and if
>> i'm able to connect via ssh (after having waited 40 minutes...) i can see
>> that perl or spamd are the processes which take the most part of the load
>> (perl due to qmailscanner, who invoke spamassassin). I'm under a debian
>> stable, i've installed spamassassin via package AND source... maybe it's
>> because of this
>>