MailScanner -4.22-5+Postfix - 2.0.18-20040122 + SpamAssassin-2.63-1 on RedHat9.0 100% cpu consumtion by Mailscanner !!!

Pete pete at eatathome.com.au
Thu Feb 26 01:43:23 GMT 2004


Chris Conn wrote:

> Try to modify your /etc/sysconfig/i18n and make change it as follows:
>
> LANG="en_US"
> SUPPORTED="en_US:en"
> SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
>
> and reboot (or reload your Mailscanner, at least)
>
> Get rid of the UTF, it makes a bunch of packages slow as h... on
> redhat9.  Perl and the like.
>
> But, to be honest, RH9 seems somewhat slower overall.  I have better
> performance on RH Enterprise ES.
>
> Chris
>
>
> Gandalf .29 .P wrote:
>
>> Hello All ,
>>
>> I am sitting infront of my server breaking my head why MailScanner
>> consumes
>> 99%-100% CPU when started ????
>>
>> My System Is Running :
>> 1) RedHat 9.0
>> 2) Perl v-5.8.0 from distro RPM !
>> 3) Postfix build 2.0.18-20040122 from www.postfix.org + TLS patch
>> 4) MailScanner 4.22-5 from MailScanner website installed from their
>> install
>> script .
>> 5) SpamAssasin-2.63-1 rpm .
>>
>>
>> I followed the Postfix+MailScanner Procedure as described in the postfix
>> website under addon software MailScanner link and my postfix is runnnig
>> chrooted on /var/spool/postfix .
>>
>> The problem is every time I activate the postfix+mailscanner setup which
>> includes all the steps mentioned in the mailscanner howto , mailscanner
>> starts postfix incoming queue + outgoing and itself while initating
>> mailscanner through perl .
>>
>> Every time I run top I see the mailscanner process taking 99% of my
>> CPU { I
>> didn't mention but I am running a P4 machine + 256MB RAM with
>> apache+webmail application} until the machine hangs !!!!
>>
>> If I get the chance to kill MailScanner processes everything gets
>> back to
>> normal and the cpu is 99% idle most of the time .
>>
>> I didn't commit any special changes to MailScanner.conf , I am just
>> using f-
>> prot and very much want to use the postfix-MailScanner-SpamAssassin
>> combination .
>>
>>
>> I will be very happy to get some help solving my problem ....
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance ,
>>
>> Gandalf .29 .P
>
>
>
>
See i had to change mine to the below or i couldnt compile sokme stuff,
mainly perl cpan stuff - how to get around the compile issue and have a
the most appropriate  lang settings?

LANG="C"
#LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"



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