[Qmail-scanner-general]Spamd using too much cpu power and memory

[Nick Twaddell]

I just moved my primary qmail server to a new box.  The old one was a dual 1.4ghz p3 setup, the new one is a single 2.8ghz xeon.  I figured it would handle the spamd load either the same or better.  Well so far its WORST.  It like pegs my cpu out all day long.  I'm running spamd with these flags

-a -d -q -x -H /home/wssgui/spamd -m 20 -u spamd -r /var/run/spamd.pid

 

Then i am using qmail-scanner to call spamc.  This process just keeps popping up to the top of my process list and sucking up all the cpu power.  I dont know if I have an error somewhere or what.

 

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 3706 spamd    129    0   420M   300M RUN     12:01 85.21% 85.21% perl

Let me know what you guys recommend, I'm starting to get a little worried :)

 

Thanks

 

Nick

 

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Nick Twaddell
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