100% processor utilisation

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

We had a similar problem a while back.
What are you using for AV?

Mr. Michele Neylon
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of M. Schievink
> Sent: 18 March 2004 11:13
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] 100% processor utilisation
>
>
> Sorry bout the HTML, should be in plain text now.
>
> It's 100% all the time, if I stop MailScanner, my processor utilisation
> drops to 1-2%. I checked my maillogs, but nothing special comes up
> there, it seems to scan the emails fine because it ran into some viruses
> and deleted them. It's just the processor utilisation that worries me,
> also it's not a high traffic mailserver, say around 1 mail / minute. So
> that shouldn’t be a problem.
>
> Martin
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] Namens
> Ugo Bellavance
> Verzonden: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 6:04 PM
> Aan: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Onderwerp: Re: 100% processor utilisation
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : M. Schievink [mailto:schievink at AKYLA.NL]
> Envoyé : 17 mars, 2004 11:07
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : 100% processor utilisation
>
>
> Hello,
>
> We've just installed MailScanner 4.28.6-1.
>
> We are using:
> RedHat 7.3 with a 2.4.18 kernel
> Perl version 5.6.1
> No spamassassin
> Installed from a tar
>
> The problem that we have is the following, the MailScanner process takes
> almost 100% cpu utilisation.
>
>       15   0 12688  12M  7792 R    97.7  4.9  23:45 MailScanner
>
> Is this a well known problem and do you have any idea how to solve this
> problem?
>
> <UB>
> normal to be 100% when it is working. is it 100% all the time?  what is
> your load?
> Please avoid HTML in posts
> </UB>
>
>  With regards,
>
> Martin Schievink
>
> Akyla Websolutions
> Hengelosestraat 705
> 7521 PA Enschede
> Telefoon: 053-4836386
> Fax: 053-4836396
> http://www.akyla.nl
>


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