Atomicorp

Since we added qgreylist our servers have experienced a much 'cleaner' mail environment, like everyone else here can attest to.. which our clients love

the only issue i have most recently found is that every now and then our load averages go through the roof - 20+ - which tends to bring other services to a grinding halt...

monitoring top i've noticed that greylist (via perl) is often the culprit.. followed by spamd..

anyone have any tips on how to tame these utilities resource consumption so we can avoid this sort of problem?

what kind of box are you on?

sorry PLESK 8.0.1/RHEL3

I did some digging around further before, spamd is going ballistic with memory usage and the mail qmail-smtp process (where greylist is called) has high cpu usage..