Slow Batch Processing...

[Julian Field]

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What OS are you running?
If a BSD-variant, try switching off the SpamAssassin Cache (in 
MailScanner.conf) and then restart MailScanner.

There appears to be something funny with the cache on some bsd-based 
boxes. Haven't got to the bottom of that yet. Need new devel server, 
which is still on the cards.

ajos1 at onion.demon.co.uk wrote:
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> Below is a section from LogWatch... since we have gone to the latest version of MailScanner... we are getting very slow processing... and sometimes in the end we have to restart MailScanner and spamassasin to get the load average back down to 0.3 from the huge 20's and 30's it goes upto!
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> There is one line that says the batch was processed in 433 seconds!  This system is only getting 10 or so messages an hour...
>
> At this instant... with one 34k message being sent out we have... Top 3 processes...
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>  PID USER   PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM   TIME+  COMMAND          
>  327 root   15  0     0    0    0 S  0.7  0.0  0:59.54 kjournald          
> 5676 root   17  0 44756  17m 2660 S  0.7  6.9  0:21.61 MailScanner        
> 6905 root   16  0 46964  17m 2708 S  0.3  7.0  0:19.85 MailScanner        
>
> Does anyone have a clue what I should look at first?
>
> Thanks in advance-o, Ajos1.
>
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>     I have found clamav mcafee scanners installed, and will use them all by defa
> ult. : 22 Time(s)
>     Expired 2 records from the SpamAssassin cache : 12 Time(s)
>     Expired 3 records from the SpamAssassin cache : 8 Time(s)
>     Expired 4 records from the SpamAssassin cache : 4 Time(s)
>     Batch processed in 29.75 seconds : 2 Time(s)
>     Expired 6 records from the SpamAssassin cache : 2 Time(s)
>     Batch processed in 26.04 seconds : 2 Time(s)
>     Expired 5 records from the SpamAssassin cache : 2 Time(s)
>     Batch processed in 43.73 seconds : 1 Time(s)
>     Batch processed in 23.82 seconds : 1 Time(s)
>     Batch processed in 30.51 seconds : 1 Time(s)
>     Batch processed in 22.59 seconds : 1 Time(s)
>     Batch processed in 83.69 seconds : 1 Time(s)
>     Batch processed in 17.55 seconds : 1 Time(s)
>     Batch processed in 17.59 seconds : 1 Time(s)
>     Batch processed in 18.94 seconds : 1 Time(s)
>     Batch processed in 433.74 seconds : 1 Time(s)
>     Batch processed in 11.35 seconds : 1 Time(s)
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