[Mimedefang] 40K+ emails a day and choking update

[David F. Skoll]

Stephen Ford wrote:

> Ok, this is odd.  At 7:30PM all of a sudden, the
> server started purring along.

Ah.  That screams network problems.  DNS latencies can kill you,
especially if you're using SURBL lookups inside SpamAssassin.
High DNS latency causes slave processes to build up.

Regards,

David.