Very slow spam checks

[Ugo Bellavance]

Mike Zanker wrote:

> Hi - I've looked through the MAQ and archives but can't find anything
> exactly like this. I'm running MailScanner 4.31.6, SpamAssassin 2.63
> and DCC, Razor and Pyzor on a P2 400 with 512MB RAM under Linux. The
> box handles about 500 messages a day, so lightly loaded. Bayes database
> is about 5.5MB in size.
>
> The problem is that SpamAssassin starts running very slowly after a
> while - taking up to 80 seconds to scan a single e-mail. If I do a
> MailScanner reload (/etc/init.d/MailScanner reload) then the problem is
> fixed and SpamAssassin goes back to taking around 5 or 6 seconds per
> e-mail. After a few hours, though, it's back to taking 60-90 seconds
> again.
>
> Does this ring a bell with anybody?
Is this a dedicated MailScanner machine?

What is the output of free when the spam processing is slow?

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