High CPU Load - Please help

[Matthew K Bowman]

Hello,

I upgraded my MailScanner to 4.31.4 this morning and dcc to version 1.2.48.
My load is still over 2. Diagnosing this problem piece by piece, I changed
my spam and high spam actions to delete for default and removed all the
other rules in both files, restarted MailScanner - this made no difference
to the load.  Disabling dcc checks also made no difference.

Is it possible that the pyzor/razor checks are causing my problem? How does
one disable pyzor/razor checks without uninstalling those packages?

 10:48:56  up 42 min,  1 user,  load average: 2.41, 2.61, 2.57
50 processes: 46 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states:  23.0% user   4.2% system    0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  72.3%
idle
CPU1 states:  94.2% user   0.1% system    0.0% nice   0.0% iowait   5.2%
idle
Mem:  1029812k av,  772988k used,  256824k free,       0k shrd,   36868k
buff
                    626500k actv,   49108k in_d,   21876k in_c
Swap: 2040244k av,   44260k used, 1995984k free                  168284k
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
 8338 root      15   0 15828 1500  1456 S    99.9  0.1   9:50   1
MailScanner
10069 root      15   0  1080 1080   856 R     0.1  0.1   0:00   0 top
    1 root      15   0   108   80    56 S     0.0  0.0   0:04   0 init

Any help would be appreciated

Thank you

Matthew



----- Original Message -----
From: "Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions"
<michele at BLACKNIGHTSOLUTIONS.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: High CPU Load - Please help


> Matthew
>
> Load problems have been discussed quite often in the past.
> As a general rule I would advise upgrading MS to the latest stable version
> to start with, as earlier versions may not be as optimal.
> Your version of DCC is out of date, as is your version of Razor.
>
> If you apply some of the optimisation tips as outlined in the MAQ you will
> probably see some improvement in performance.
>
> M
>
> Mr Michele Neylon
> Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
> http://www.blacknight.ie/
> Tel. +353 59 9137101
>
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