SpamAssassin Hangup

[Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:07:02PM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
> At 11:05 15/07/2002, you wrote:
> >rocks!  LoadAvg has gone down substantially and we are from nasty milter
> >problems.
>
> Glad to hear it. Out of personal interest, how big was the change in load?

Most of the day it used to hop between 0.7 to a bit over 1.0.  But when
some mailing list gods blasted us 2-4 times a day, LoadAvg would shoot
up to 8-12 and sendmail would start spewing out 4xx temporary errors.

With MailScanner + uvscan it's less than 0.2. Only very rarely have I
spotted it more than 0.7, only for a batch or two.  I almost can't
believe it!  Milter is really not the right place to do a heavy job.

> >to see how long it takes.  It consumes 100% cpu until I kill it.  I am
> >on Slackware, mail traffic around 30K per day.
>
> Are you using the very latest SpamAssassin (2.31)?

Yes.

> Did installing it upgrade your version of Perl?

No. I am a hands on type of guy.  Installed all the pre-requisites
manually.

> What version of Perl are you using? (5.6.0 is a bit dodgy).

5.6.1.


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Mojahed
System Administrator, Agni Systems Limited