4.50.15 - Big problems on FreeBSD / exim

[TCIS List Acct]

TCIS List Acct wrote:

> I see the problem now:
> 
>   PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
> 49938 root      -2   0   180M   112M getblk 0   0:02 17.57%  9.28% perl
> 49826 root      -2   0   515M   262M getblk 0   0:04  9.73%  8.54% perl
> 49870 root      28   0   515M   266M pfault 2   0:04 10.66%  8.40% perl
> 49530 root      -2   0   515M   423M getblk 2   0:06  7.99%  7.81% perl
> 49993 root      28   0   360M   181M pfault 0   0:01  9.32%  3.08% perl
> 50000 root      28   0 22572K 14708K pfault 0   0:00 19.48%  1.86% perl
> 
> The perl processes are taking massive amounts of RAM on 4.50.15.  I'll 
> try turning off the SA caching and see if that makes any difference.

Ok, I've tracked down part of the problem (from the 4.48.4-2 release notes):

- Rearranged SpamAssassin spam.assassin.prefs.conf file, it is now read 
by SpamAssassin via a link called "mailscanner.cf" in the site_rules 
directory.  It is no longer read directly by MailScanner, it is just 
read by Spam-Assassin during its normal initialisation process.

This really hosed those of us not using an RPM or install.sh script (and 
those of us dumb enough not to read the relnotes before doing this :)) 
-- it caused my SA prefs not to be read in, and thus caused SA to use 
its default settings (Bayes on, DNS BL's on, etc) which caused the 
majority of the performance problems.

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