Huge spam load

[decafranky]

Hi,

Running CentOS 4.6 on all servers,
running exim (mbox) and some others with dovecot

There are 2 servers (one with mbox & 1 with dovecot) having seriously problems with huge loads (+50,00 instead of normally less then 1,00).

When i kill all exim processes and restart exim, it will return back normal for a few minutres or hours ...

Running exim 6.67 and spamassassin:
SpamAssassin Server version 3.2.2
running on Perl 5.8.5
with SSL support (IO::Socket::SSL 1.06)
with zlib support (Compress::Zlib 1.42)


What can i do about this?

And can i block all smtp connections except for localhost (php mail functions excluded for example)

Help would be very welcome

Franky

 

[smtalk]

Try to set this in exim.conf (don't forget to restart exim after the changes):

deliver_queue_load_max = 5

 

[decafranky]

thanks, but doesn't effect

Try to set this in exim.conf (don't forget to restart exim after the changes):

deliver_queue_load_max = 5

 

[smtalk]

Try queue_only_load too.

 

[decafranky]

with "deliver_queue_load_max = 5", seems to be back normal sinds yesterday, hope will stay that way

thank you