High CPU Utilization

[Marco Benton - BOFH]

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Andrews Carl 448 wrote:

| High CPU Utilization
|
| I am using a 3GHZ Compaq/HP DL380 with 1G RAM, running MailScanner
| 4.35.11, Spamassassin 3.0.1, RedHat 9.0 (download version) and
| clamav 0.80. At any given point I have one copy of
| /usr/sbin/MailScanner running at 50% -97% CPU. As I am writting
| this there are 23 instances running, one is at 60% and the rest do
| not even appear on the (top -c ) output. Anyone got any ideas on
| why this would be? Anything I can do to correct? Output from sar
| shows: "Average:          all     60.23      0.00     15.97
| 23.80". This server is for email filtering only. No other software
| (except a full install of the OS)
|

you mention you have 23 other instances running.  do you mean you
configured 23-25 "Max Children" in MailScanner.conf?

that's not a good thing.  that mat be causing you load too go high and
excessive I/O.

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