New Batch: found 200 messages waiting, Number keeps increasing

[rob]

On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:31:05 -0400, Derek Catanzaro wrote
> Res wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Derek Catanzaro wrote:
> >
> >> I will see how things go in the morning.  Right now I'm back down to 
> >> about 150 messages waiting which is normal for me.  It took most of 
> >> the day and some of the night for it to chew through the nearly 
> >> 10,000 that accumulated through the day.  I have not had an issue 
> >> like this for some time and prior to this it was DNS queries causing 
> >> the problem, that is when I implemented the local caching name server 
> >> and it has been pretty solid since then.  I am using the following in 
> >> MailScanner.conf.
> >
> > next time it happens disable spamassassin
> >
> >
> >
> The backup started occurring again this morning, reached about 1500 
> messages waiting.  I took Res' suggestion and turned off spamassassin in 
> the MailScanner.conf and sure enough it was only a matter of a couple 
> minutes until the messages waiting went back down to under 200.  That 
> will at least help in preventing delayed email (thanks Res) but now 
> spamassassin is not running which I would obviously like to have running.
> 
> Thanks,
> Derek
> 

We ran into something like this a few months ago.  Found out the machine was swapping a
ton with only 1 gig of RAM installed.  Once we bumped this up to 4 gigs of ram, we have
not had the issue return.