What is going on? Totally bizzare

[Julian Field]

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At 17:10 22/09/2004, you 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!!
>
>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

Make sure you have
         Log Spam = yes
so you can see it studying the messages. A load of over 5 is quite normal,
that's nothing to worry about. How many child processes are you running?
They will about 40 - 50Mb each, so with 400Mb of RAM then don't run too
many children or it will start swapping. What does top say? What does
vmstat say?
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