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class=406473422-02022004>Greetings,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>I have the following
configuration:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=406473422-02022004>mailscanner-4.25-14</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>with spamassassin
2.61</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>sendmail
8.11.6-27</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=406473422-02022004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>on an IBM x235
</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=406473422-02022004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>2 2.4GHZ
Processors</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>1.25 GHZ of
RAM</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>Hot swapable raid 5
config.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>We have about a 100
small sites configured for mail mostly and some, web.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=406473422-02022004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>This is running on
RedHat Linux 7.3 Kernel 2.4.18-27.7.xsmp</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>We have been running
MailScanner on that machine for almost 2 years now without any
problems.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=406473422-02022004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>Since last week,
MailScanner has been bringing the server almost to a complete halt, loads are
skyrocking very suddently to 200! It is also taking at that time about 25MB per
MailScanner process.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>It does this for
several minutes to a few hours and then suddently comes
back.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=406473422-02022004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>I really don't know
what can be causing this.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=406473422-02022004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>I have read the mail
archives for this problem but the solutions I found were not appropriate to my
specific problem/condition.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>My config has the
max attachments set to 5 and the MailScanner processes set to 10 (5 per
CPU).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=406473422-02022004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>Can anyone
help?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=406473422-02022004>Thank you in
advance.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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