SpamAssassin Hangup

[Thomas DuVally]

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 10:10, Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat wrote:
> 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.
>

Any info online about milters and resource usage?  I've never heard of
any info (good or bad) and would love to have something to reference
when it comes up.

> 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.
>
>
> --
> Mojahed
> System Administrator, Agni Systems Limited
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Tom DuVally
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CIS, Brown University
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