> > I have debian stable system with than configuration:
> > exim4-heavy 4.50-8
> > amavisd-new 20030616p10-5
> > clamav-daemon 0.88-0volatile1
> > spamc 3.0.3-2
> > dual Xeon 2GHz, 1GB RAM, SCSI320 disk (with noatime for spool and temp
> > partitions)
> >
> >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> >  2098 amavis    20  10 37500  30m  14m R 41.7  3.5   0:32.66 amavisd-new
> > 30285 amavis    17  10 37868  31m  13m R 37.9  3.6   1:33.07 amavisd-new
> > 30507 amavis    18  10 36336  30m  14m R 37.9  3.5   1:30.43 amavisd-new
> > 29294 amavis    20  10 36972  31m  13m R 34.1  3.5   1:55.25 amavisd-new
> >
> > what may cause that, why amavis eating CPU while clamd and spamd works
> > fine with minimal resources?  is it worth to upgrade system to
> > etch/testing (with amavisd-new 1:2.3.3-8)?
>
> At log level 2 you get TIMING reports, see what it tells.

amavisd-new[14947]: (14947-01) TIMING [total 7480 ms] - SMTP EHLO: 4
(0%), SMTP pre-MAIL: 0 (0%), m
kdir tempdir: 0 (0%), create email.txt: 0 (0%), SMTP pre-DATA-flush: 3
(0%), SMTP DATA: 39 (1%), body hash: 1 (0%), mkdi
r parts: 1 (0%), mime_decode: 21 (0%), get-file-type: 13 (0%),
decompose_part: 48 (1%), parts: 0 (0%), AV-scan-1: 32 (0%
), SA msg read: 5 (0%), SA parse: 8 (0%), SA check: 7267 (97%),
fwd-connect: 8 (0%), fwd-mail-from: 1 (0%), fwd-rcpt-to:
 2 (0%), write-header: 2 (0%), fwd-data: 5 (0%), fwd-data-end: 14
(0%), fwd-rundown: 2 (0%), unlink-1-files: 4 (0%), run
down: 0 (0%)

hmm, it's strange.  SA check gets all the time, but spamd process doesn't.

> What you see might be normal with a steady flow of mail.
> How many messages per time unit is your setup processing?

not so many. 1k, sometime 3k messages in a hour.

> What is spamd used for?

it's spamassassin daemon.


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