Re: spamd hangs at 100% cpu

2007-10-19 Thread Micah Anderson
I too have experienced strange hangs with spamc/spamd combos on my postfix box running maildrop/mailfilter. At first I was convinced it was my bayes DB because it was using MyISAM tables and these are slow and I'm doing a lot of mail. So I switched to InnoDB and then I was convinced that the pr

Re: spamd hangs at 100% cpu

2007-10-19 Thread longjos
I am also having this same problem, Just noticed it starting two days ago. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/spamd-hangs-at-100--cpu-tf4651889.html#a13298064 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: spamd hangs at 100% cpu

2007-10-19 Thread Peter Fastré
Thank you for your response, Michael. I've done your suggestions (sa-update + less RBL's), but still the same problem. We already have a caching nameserver in the same subnet. Some further investigation learns that it's always the same mail which spamassassin is crashing on! But I don't have this

RE: spamd hangs at 100% cpu

2007-10-19 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Peter Get the latest ruleset for SA using sa-update, this works around an issue with whois lookups. Only run a few RBL's - you're running them all and this will take some time. Running a local caching nameserver on the box will help as well. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid