What is going on? Totally bizzare

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Dave wrote:
> I'm in the process of setting up a box with MS. I think I have everything
> set correctly and it's filtering emails,
> BUT it seems to work 100% when I'm in debug mode!!

What do you mean? 100% CPU usage when used in debug mode?

>
> The system is a 700Mhz with almost 400 megs memory.
> I am currently testing it with fetchmail.(Long story), but it works fine.
>
> So when I run MS with debug set to YES(also SA debug on), the system load is
> under 2(using uptime/top),
> I placed 150 spam messages into the pop account I'm fetching mail from.(I
> have a pop account with over 1000 spam
> emails). MS starts to process the messages about 30 at a time, I keep
> reloading the MS service and it continues
> to process the emails. All is well...



>
> So I figure everything is working fine, turn off the debug and reload MS.
> NOW the load on the system is up to 5+
> nothing in the logs to show it's processing anything.
> And if something does show up on the logs, it's timeout messages either from
> SA or RBL's

How many processes you've got?  Is the system swapping?

Btw, 150 messages is a lot to process at one time.

>
> Am I doing something stupid? OR am I missing something here?
>
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