High Load after MS and Mailwatch Upgrade

[Martin Hepworth]

Steve Freegard wrote:
> Hi Christo,
>
> Post the output of:  "time spamassassin -D rbl=-3,rulesrun=255 -p
> /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf --lint" as that should show
> what is slowing SpamAssassin down.
>
> Also are you running any custom SA rulesets that might be slowing
> SpamAssassin down?? - I've had problems in the past with the
> sa-blacklist and sa-blacklist-uri custom sets as they are so big.
>
> If you want to disable MailWatch to confirm that it is not causing your
> problems, you can do this by commenting the line in CustomConfig.pm that
> says "require 'MailScanner/MailWatch.pm';" and restart MailScanner and
> see if that helps at all.
>
> Kind regards,
> Steve.
>

Another thought is where are you doing the RBL checks? if you are
duplication RBL checks on SA as well as Mailscanner then this could be
an issue..

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


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