I am currently running SpamAssassin 3.1.9 and MIMEDefang 2.6.3. I recently attempted an upgrade of SpamAssassin to the latest version (3.2.4) and in a matter of about 15 minutes, the load average on the server skyrocketed to over 20 and continued to grow. The output of the top command showed that numerous mimedefang processes had been spawned and they all just sat there eating up the CPU and memory. I reverted back to SpamAssassin 3.1.9 and everything returned to normal.
In an attempt to troubleshoot this issue, I duplicated my Sendmail+MIMEDefang+SpamAssassin configuration onto a test machine. I have been unsuccessful in getting this problem to occur on the test machine. However, any attempt to upgrade SpamAssassin on my production server results in high load averages. At this point, I'm at a stand still in terms of what the next step should be in troubleshooting this problem. I am unsure if this is a SpamAssassin problem or MIMEDefang problem as both seem to be involved. I have been searching around on other forums and have not found anything. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if there are any configuration files I can post that will help in narrowing this down further. Thank you. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SpamAssassin-MIMEDefang-High-Load-Average-tp15613833p15613833.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.