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. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
