Mailscanner Spamassassin timing out

[Marco Benton]

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Billy Pumphrey wrote:

| I let it run for a bit and it seems to be at least processing some
| messages now and then before it times out again.  I had this
| problem before but I increase the timeout and it worked last time.
| Maybe it is just too slow of a machine and is just getting killed
| right now?
|
| 500mhz 384mb RAM Average messages per day        2,462
|
| The logwatch that returns usually shows that there were load
| volumes of around 12 about 4-5 times.
|

you need more memory.  try decreasing the Max Children to 1 or 2 and
see how that works.  processor speed is fine.

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Marco Benton - BOFH, BSMFH
Network Consultant


BOFH excuse #293: The cause of the problem is: PCMCIA slave driver

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