SPAMD CPU Load
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:02 am
by kmcelwain
I ran top and noticed that there are 5 instances of spamd running that are very heavy on the CPU load side of things.
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I'm just wondering if this is normal
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:52 am
by MHoffmann
My server does run 6 spamd processes - but none of them uses cpu time!
Of course when spmassassin processes emails, cpu time is used!
However i had some problems with one or two spamd processes eating up all cpu time (100%) for several hours!
My problem was that spamassassin tried to contact spam servers (pyzor / dcc / ...) via internet which was refused by our company firewall.
This caused the high cpu load!
Opening the ports needed by spamd in the firewall cured the problem!
Good luck!