Mailscanner Spamassassin timing out

[Ugo Bellavance]

    [ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

Marco Benton wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> 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.

Please run 'free' to see if you have lots of swap used.  And then
'vmstat 2' and see if you have lots of page ins/page outs.

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the MAQ (http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!