Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:13:10 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SpamAssassin (spamd) eating a lot of CPU.... Message-ID: <45B76976.4070408@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <45B6DA5A.9080704@forrie.com> References: <45B6DA5A.9080704@forrie.com>
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Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Since a recent update of Spamassassin to: > > PORTVERSION= 3.1.7 > PORTREVISION= 3 > > I've noticed that each email that gets scanned causes the process to eat > up 80+% of the CPU time, and it's slow... > > I'm not really sure what changed. > > Likewise, when I start it up for the first time, I see: > > [ top output ] > 49106 root 1 106 0 290M 267M RUN 0 0:17 *98.52%* > perl5.8.8 > > I have a Dell system here, and it cranks up the fan every time a message > comes in now, with the recent spamd. > > Curious if anyone else has had these issues, etc. > > The system is not otherwise active, so I'm certain it's not a resource > issue (or constraint thereof). > > > Thanks. We had this issue. But we assumed that it was an increase in spam on the internet (perhaps recent MS worms).
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