Re: [Exim] Spamassassin opening up lots of processes

Frank DeChellis DSL wrote:

> For some reason our system had way too many spamd processes running and it
> took over our system.
> Is this usual? unusual? Is there a way to limit the number of spamd
> processes opened? I tried lowring my max connections to exim but that
> didn;t help.

This can happen if

- your mail volume is too large for your hardware.

- SA is trying to reach external sources (Razor etc.) which are either
down or unreachable. Try the -L flag with spamd.


/tom