Re: SA timeout

Jonathan Armitage <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:48:05 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.exim.spamassassin
Organization	Hepworth Band
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

>>> Aaron Stromas wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> *X-SA-Exim-Scanned:* No (on localhost.localdomain); SA Timed out after
>>>> 240 secs
>>>> Why would this happen? (Restarting exim does not seem to have helped)
>>>
I had this issue some months ago, and eventually decided that, at busy 
times, too many spamd daemons were running simultaneously, resulting in 
them swapping.

I limited the number of daemons that could run simultaneously with 
--max-children, which helped.

Jon