What is going on? Totally bizzare

[Michele Neylon:: Blacknight Solutions]

> 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!!
>
> 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
>
> Am I doing something stupid? OR am I missing something here?
What are you getting in your mail logs when you turn off debugging?

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