On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 10:53 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 12), Thomas Cameron said: > > spamc is suddenly bringing my mail server to its knees. > > > > Running RHEL 4 with the spamassassin-3.0.1-0.EL4 (supplied by Red Hat) and > > spamass-milter-0.3.0-3 (I made that RPM) along with razor-agents-2.67-0, > > dcc-1.3.0-0 and pyzor-0.4.0-0. > > > > All of a sudden about two days ago spamc processes were chewing up > > the machine - sendmail was actually rejecting messages because the > > load average was so high! This is a machine that is only used for > > about 6 users... It only handles around a thousand to two thousand > > messages a day. I am the only admin on it and nothing has changed. > > What's the average processing time for a message, and are you using any > -i flags on your spamass-milter commandline? Grep your maillog for > "in .* seconds," to get the timings. If they're all under 10 seconds > or so and you're not using -i, check for things like mail loops, or > large outgoing mail bursts.
It was up around 50-60 seconds per message. I rebooted the machine and it has cleared up. Thanks for the help! Thomas