spamd causing errors !!

[mitul]

Hello,

Recently spamd is causing tremndous load on server.

- CPU load gove above 10.00
- BSMTP pipe timeout error occours if server load is high.

Any idea how do I control load genrated because of spamd??

Thank you,

 

[chirpy]

Not a lot you can do. spamd is a CPU and memory hog. The only thing you can realistically do is to reduce the email traffic by ensuring that no domains are using :blackhole: or /dev/null in /etc/valiases and are using :fail: instead. Also, make sure any Default Addresses that don't need to be set are also set to :fail:

You could also consider inline RBL checking ACLs in the exim configuration.

You could also control the email load somewhat by offloading to the exim queue if the load average rises too high:

queue_only_load = 4

 

[ivankovalenko]

as i think of it, if you have a spare server around, you can dedicate it to spamd proccessing and connect exim to it directly by ip, not socket like its done in the exim now

 

[jackie46]

There is alot you can do. You can completely stop spamd by disabling it in System Services.

 

[mitul]

Thank you for your suggestion and responses. I will try them.

 

[jackie46]

I would get rid of spamd and completely disable it. We did it on every server including our new freebsd boxes. What a waste of cpu resources. If you are doing spam filtering at the server level is absolutely no reason to do it at the user level.

 

[mitul]

I manage to control the server load by implementing the RBL list in exim.conf

From last 2 days server load seems to be quite stable.

Regards,