Oh I know, and that's how I explained it to my boss. But he said when they ran top, it was one particular spamd process (a single PID) that was using up CPU time. It was not a matter of too many spmad processes running, or too many messages coming in/being processed. It wasn't the queue.
So we were wondering if there is a way to make it so that when simscan calls spamd, that there is a limit to how much CPU it can use. > -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Espinoza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 6:52 PM > To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Load levels occasionally skyrocket > > > The spamd's run in a parent/child configuration. The more > childs asking for the parent to scan viruses, the more the > parent will work. Eventually eating 100% of the cpu. The only > way to fix this is to lower how many childs will be asking > the parent to scan, and that is by lowering the concurrent > incoming e-mail :) > > Erik > > On 4/6/06, Dairenn Lombard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I asked my boss, and he said that the problem was there was one > > particular instance of spamd that was drawing almost 100% > of the CPU's > > time. That doesn't appear to be something we could fix by lowering > > the number of messages the server will try to process at any given > > moment. > > > > How can we throttle it so that a single instance of spamd can bring > > the loads up to 45-55+? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Dairenn > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Erik Espinoza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:28 PM > > > To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com > > > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Load levels occasionally skyrocket > > > > > > > > > You can try lowering your 'concurrencyincoming' limit. I believe > > > that QmailToaster defaults to 100 and starts throttling how much > > > mail comes in (thus being scanned by spamd/clamd). Try > putting this > > > file, /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming, to 50. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Erik > > > > > > On 4/5/06, Dairenn Lombard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hey there, > > > > > > > > On one of our toasters, we've had a situation (twice since it > > > > first went online late last summer) where, the server's load > > > average shoots > > > > over 50 for no apparent reason. > > > > > > > > We seem to feel it might have something to do with > simscan because > > > > when we ran top, we just saw like ridiculous amounts of > resources > > > > being used by up spamd and clamd - they don't run on > their own and > > > > are, rather, called by simscan (as is my understanding). > > > > > > > > My question is, is there some way of throttling this? We > > > had a number > > > > of customers complaining about not being able to get > their e-mail > > > > 'cause of timeouts. It even took me 5 minutes to SSH into > > > the server > > > > once this had already begun, and a reboot was already tried. > > > > > > > > Any ideas, guys? > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - > > > > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
