[Mimedefang] Multiplexor Consuming Processor
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Mon Jul 26 21:28:01 EDT 2004
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Nathan Martinez wrote:
> I have mimedefang 2.45-Beta-1, SA 2.63, clamd 0.75 running on a RedHat 9
> machine with dual PIII-500 and 1GB memory. I have been noticing that
> the multiplexor process is consuming 99.9% of its processor (using
> 'top'). This machine's load often jumps to 25 or 30. When I run
> 'md-mx-ctrl status', I can see that there are rarely more than 5 or 6
> slaves that are busy. I guess my question is why is my load so high if
> I am only processing 5 or 6 mails at a time?
Impossible to tell. Is /var/spool/MIMEDefang on a RAM Disk?
Are you using the embedded Perl interpreter? What's the maximum size of
message that you're passing to SpamAssassin? If you pass a huge message
to SpamAssassin (more than around 100 kB), it can chew up CPU like you
wouldn't believe.
Regards,
David.
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