1.We have a sitewide config 2.Startup parameters are command_args="-d --min-children=2 --max-children=10 --min-spare=2 --max-spare=3 --max-conn-per-child=100 -r ${pidfile}"
3.I do not scan messages over 250 k 4.We process roughly 5k messages daily 5. the hardware is ehh kinda crappy, but we don't really process that much PIII 550 448 ram And this machine does not "hold" any mail , it process it, then , if clean and spam free it goes right to our exchange server -----Original Message----- From: Daryl C. W. O'Shea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:44 PM Cc: SpamAssassin Subject: Re: Plugin eval failed On 13/03/2008 8:02 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > What other info should I post? The output of vmstat while this is happening. A definition of "constantly". Every message, some % of messages? For some common size of messages? Whether it happens when scanning mail for a subset of users or for all users. Relevant spamd log output. spamd debug output. Your spamd startup parameters along with a description of the hardware you're running. A summary of any non-default rulesets you're using. A comment regarding the validity, in this instance, of my comment about the common causes of the child processing timeout symptom. Daryl