Re: [bitfolk] bitfolk communal spamd

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Author: Andy Smith
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Hi,

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:50:20AM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:41:07AM +0000, Nigel Rantor wrote:
> > I have been seeing exim complain about a lot more timeouts recently and
> > I was wondering if the load had significantly increased on that server
> > or if perhaps you've added some tests that are taking longer.
>
> I've been having some problems with the spamd myself in the last
> day or two -- missing headers, and timeouts.


There was an increase in load and it exposed some config mistakes I
had made (firewalled off one of the servers from its database, which
caused timeouts and further increased load). I fixed that around
lunch time and will be adding more servers over the weekend.

Cheers,
Andy

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