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On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Tilman Schmidt <tschm...@cardtech.de> wrote: > As a guess, it was probably scanning a big attachment. > > ObAdvice: *don't* use kill -9. > > HTH > T. > > On 08.06.2017 20:59, Curtis NPC wrote: > > Ok, I was premature in that. I was worried that several amavis processes > > were going to start up again. > > Eventually that process that I described disappeared. But I wonder why > > it was taking so long (5-10 minutes) and so much CPU? > > > > On 2017-06-08 18:38:30 +0000, Curtis NPC said: > > > >> Now I've noticed that amavis is taking up 100% of the CPU. In fact > >> just a few minutes ago I had several amavis processes running at the > >> same time, all sucking up resources. > >> I had to stop all mail related services. Kill -9 on all amavis > >> processes and then restart them all. Things were calm for a while, but > >> now.... > >> > >> Any ideas why this happening. > >> > >> Here's what I get on the process: > >> > >> 11082 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/amavisd-new (master) > >> 11101 ? R 10:26 /usr/sbin/amavisd-new (ch7-11101-07-9) > >> 11529 ? S 0:00 smtp -n smtp-amavis -t unix -u -c -o > >> smtp_data_done_timeout=1200 -o smtp_send_xforward_command=yes -o > >> disable_dns_lookups=yes -o max_use=20 > >> 11566 ? S 0:04 /usr/sbin/amavisd-new (ch13-avail) > >> 11697 ? S 0:00 smtp -n smtp-amavis -t unix -u -c -o > >> smtp_data_done_timeout=1200 -o smtp_send_xforward_command=yes -o > >> disable_dns_lookups=yes -o max_use=20 > >> > >> Top shows thtat is is process 11101 that's taking up all the CPU > >> > >> 11101 amavis 20 0 269800 142780 7912 R 100.0 1.8 7:30.26 > >> /usr/sbin/amavi > > -- cat /etc/motd Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya http://www.theravadanet.net/