Chris St. Pierre wrote: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Craig Baird wrote: > > >>I have an old Redhat box that started doing this a while back. After a lot of >>hair pulling, I finally figured out that the problem was related to spam >>floods, but seemed to be caused by the syslog daemon. > > > That's actually not a bad suggestion; the OP should check to make sure > that whatever log SpamAssassin is going to (probably the maillog) is > asynchronous (is prefixed with a "-"), like this: > > mail.* -/var/log/maillog > > That's the default on most Linuxes, but if you've changed that, or if > you're filtering SpamAssassin stuff to a different log, that could > cause the problems.
That is actually very interesting. One of my ideas was that the server was getting slow due to the disc usage, and I have checked my syslog.conf and I did not hove the asynchronous logging mode set for maillog. Thanks for the tip. BR, Matias.
