System load very high

[Spicer, Kevin]

I had a similar problem once which I cleared by turning off auto-whitelisting in SA - never turned it back on (should have been off anyway I found out later)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Leavitt [mailto:dll at SCITOOLS.COM]
> Sent: 20 May 2003 01:27
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: System load very high
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Drat.   The system load has once again climbed sky-high - 
> it's currently at 39!   Sendmail is refusing connections and all of my
> MailScanner processes show in the run-state and near the top 
> 6 with top.   I get frequent SpamAssassin timeout messages and until
> today was also getting InfinteMonkeys and ORD-RBL timeouts as 
> well.  I've removed the RBL settings from MailScanner.conf and
> implemented same in sendmail.cf and they seem to work fine 
> with no timeouts.  Can someone give me some ideas what to 
> look for with
> this.   I've seen others in the past with similar problems 
> but I haven't been able to find their solutions in the FAQ or 
> anywhere.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Peters" <P.G.M.Peters at CIV.UTWENTE.NL>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 9:24 AM
> Subject: Re: Palyh-A virus
> 
> 
> > On Mon, 19 May 2003 06:41:54 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> > >Thanks to MailScanner, three .pif attachments that 
> included Palyh-A were
> > >stopped before Sophos had an updated definition!
> >
> > It is called W32/Sobig.B at mm by f-prot.
> >
> > --
> > Peter Peters, senior netwerkbeheerder
> > Dienst Informatietechnologie, Bibliotheek en Educatie (ITBE)
> > Universiteit Twente,  Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
> > telefoon: 053 - 489 2301, fax: 053 - 489 2383, 
http://www.utwente.nl/civ
>



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