MailScanner and SpamAssassin together causes Exterme CPU usage

[Steve Campbell]

I had a problem that took forever to resolve. I, too, was using KAM for 
many months, when all of a sudden my machine started to creep and crawl. 
I started removing different things and monitoring, and replaced them 
back into the scheme of things when they didn't help. Once I removed 
KAM, things got better significantly.

I didn't replace it and haven't had the problem since. I don't know why 
it started happening, and I don't know what the daily download might 
have included that particular day, but I'm attributing it to a 
combination of KAM and perhaps my version of Perl.

I know there are a lot of people still using KAM without problems, so 
I'm guessing that it's just my particular combination of things here 
that triggered it.

Steve Campbell