Hi, me again ;)
I'm pretty confident that the hogging occurs when SA is trying to sync
the bayes. The bayes_journal is cleared exactly when the hogging begins.
And when I run sa-learn --sync I get the very same hogging effect.
The permissions seems ok, doesn't it?
-rw------- 1 spamd wheel 20 Sep 23 13:28 bayes.lock
-rw------- 1 spamd wheel 2760 Sep 23 13:28 bayes_journal
-rw-r--r-- 1 spamd wheel 83755008 Sep 23 13:28 bayes_seen
-rw------- 1 spamd wheel 83853312 Sep 23 13:28 bayes_toks
Regards,
Andreas