spamd slowing IMAP down?

[GillroY]

For a while now we're experiencing really slow logins when using IMAP (either via Outlook or via SquirrelMail). After some research it turns out that when you restart the spamd service before trying to login, everythings goes smoothly again. Then after some (random) time the login becomes slow again.

The problem is I can't figure out how spamd could be influencing our IMAP service...
Anyone here who knows as to why or how this is happening???

I'm using spamd with the following parameters: "-d -c -m 5 -H"

 

[nobaloney]

spamd shouldn't be slowing down your IMAP services, unless the server itself is being overwhelmed by the email load.

Jeff

 

[GillroY]

That isn't the case for sure. I checked processor usage and stuff at the time of logging in and everything was perfectly normal.
Didn't find abnormal email load in the logs either.

What I'm doing right now is restarting spamd every half an hour, that works, but isn't a real solution of course...

 

[nobaloney]

spamd has no connection with IMAP.

It's probably slowing your server. Whether or not you've identified the resources it's using.

Whatever.

Jeff

 

[GillroY]

spamd has no connection with IMAP.

I get that, but why am I only experiencing problems with IMAP then?
Apache and other services keep on working fine. I'm not saying there is a direct link, but possibly someone here saw this before or something.