Multi Threaded Perl

[Pete]

David Hooton wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We have one box which for some reason seems to have been hit really 
> hard by the latest version of MailScanner the strange thing about this 
> is that it’s the newest and most highly specified box we have.
>
> The only difference I can see with this box is that it’s running 
> multithreaded perl 5.8.0 is there any known issues with this at all?
>
> The box itself is a dual processor PIV with 1Gig of Ram running RedHat 
> 9. We have the work dirs in tmpfs etc and have no problems with our 
> other boxes, just this one which has gone from easily able to process 
> 100,000 messages per day down to bearly processing 15,000
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> David Hooton
>
> Senior Partner
>
> Platform Hosting
>
> www.platformhosting.com
>
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I know its not comparable spec/stats, but one of my servers i upgraded 
from 4.24-5 to latest stable, where it was a p200/512mb scanning 500 
emails per day with 6 MS processes, now cant even really run 3 without 
every message passing with spamassassin time outs, which i am led to 
believe re caused by the load on the server?

Was happily cruising along with .8 load avergae which is now alsmot 3 
and sometimes 5 all the time. Upgraded mailwatch too, and this is now 
fast as.

I believe i have this machine reasonably well tuned, and as i said was 
running dreamily before this upgrade...before i read this i figured i 
must have broken something?