high cpu usage!!!

[Errol Neal]

At 06:24 AM 12/24/2003, you wrote:
>I can check but most of the time i am clueless about the logs entry
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>I am getting tons of mails in mqueue.in. I have deleted them and now they
>are building up again....
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>At 07:16 PM 12/24/2003, you wrote:
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>>Check your mail log for any reports from MailScanner.
>>
>>At 10:11 24/12/2003, you wrote:
>>>I am getting very high cpu usage by mailscanner.
>>>
>>>177 processes: 163 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 11 stopped
>>>CPU states: 18.2% user,  4.0% system,  1.0% nice, 31.5% idle
>>>Mem:   504792K av,  474500K used,   30292K free,    1508K shrd,   42668K
>>>buff
>>>Swap: 1020116K av,  137800K used,  882316K free                   99664K
>>>cached
>>>
>>>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>>>31972 root      14   0 25432  20M 12324 R    85.0  4.2   0:19 MailScanner
>>>32019 apache     9   0 10200 7456  5636 S     7.5  1.4   0:00 httpd
>>>32081 root       9   0  1104 1104   804 R     3.7  0.2   0:00 top
>>>32028 apache     9   0  9024 6280  5516 S     0.9  1.2   0:00 httpd
>>>
>>>
>>>Please help!
>>>
>>>thanks
>>
>>--
>>Julian Field
>>www.MailScanner.info
>>Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
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>>PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
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>thanks


Deleting messages in mqueue.in is deleting your real mail. That is where
sendmail queues messages to be scanned
by mailscanner. Please provide the your hardware, OS and version of
mailscanner you are running.


Errol Neal


Errol U. Neal Jr., Systems Administrator
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