Forcing spamd child to abort

["Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <da...@prime.gushi.org>]

Is there a way to force a spamd child to abort and return a message 
unprocessed after...

a) a certain amount of cpu time.

b) a certain amount of realtime (60 seconds?)

I've had a couple of "spamd child" processes drive my load average through 
the roof, force sendmail to shut down, and screw things up good until 
they were manually killed.

I would also LOVE to see a way to view at a glance what spamd children are 
processing what message for who, similar to apache's server-status page.

-Dan Mahoney

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Re: Forcing spamd child to abort

[Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com>]

At 03:18 PM 3/4/2005, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
>Is there a way to force a spamd child to abort and return a message 
>unprocessed after...
>
>a) a certain amount of cpu time.
>
>b) a certain amount of realtime (60 seconds?)

MailScanner calls SA at the API layer attempts to do b), unfortunately, 
this is better in theory than in practice as it wreaks havok on SA's bayes 
auto-expiry.

The same fundamental problem applies to spamd, and to both a) and b)... 
SA's per-message computation time gets huge when an expiry run kicks in..