MailScanner and SpamAssassin together causes Exterme CPU usage

[Steve Freegard]

> On Oct 15, 2009, at 10:49 AM, Eddie Hallahan wrote:
> 
>> We had a similar situation and found that kicking the SpamAssassin
>> timeout up to 300 sorted it out.
>>

Alex Neuman wrote:
> By "sorted it out" you mean "swept it under the rug", right? ;-)

LOL; I might use that as a sig ;-)

Here's a metric I use all the time; with 'Log Speed = yes' take the
batch time e.g.

Batch (10 messages) processed in 31.83 seconds

And divide the number of seconds by the number of messages e.g. 31.83/10
= 3.183 to give you the average number of seconds per message.  If the
resultant number is >10 then you have a problem somewhere that you need
to track down.

Regards,
Steve.