On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 08:25:07 -0800, SA wrote > For some time I have been trying to determine why spamassassin > performance on our server hasn't been as rapid as it should be. I think > I've discovered a possible cause. The server can be busy with lots > of things and not degrade SA performance greatly. But, let another perl > process run such as webmin's miniserv.pl or even pflogsumm.pl and > spamassassin slows down markedly.
Are you perhaps running out of memory and having to swap to disk? Perl can be pretty memory hungry.
