[Mimedefang] Multiplexor Consuming Processor

[Matt Smith]

From: "Nathan Martinez" <NathanM at aaesys.com>
>> 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?

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>1. /var/spool/MIMEDefang is on a RAM Disk
>2. I am using the Perl interpreter
>3. Only messages smaller than 100KB are being passed to SA

>Any more ideas?

Nathan,

How much physical memory do you have available to the system?  I have seen
this on two of my installs, one had 128Mb, then other 256Mb.  Once I
installed more memory (added 512Mb) all was good, problems disappeared, mail
scanned alot quicker.

Just a thought.

Regards,
Matt