This will come up alot on RedHat 8.0 users and high volume users..... After much trouble shooting and trial.....
All users running perl 5.8 and spamassassin will find this: I am running RedHat 8.0 with spamassassin ( was 2.32 that comes with RedHat 8.0 ) 2.43 and the default Perl 5.8. I receive about 100,000 emails a day on each server. I tried using spamassassin but always found that after a few minutes that the CPU would load way up ( 30 + ) on spamd and essentialy kill the server. I saw UTF-8 encoding errors: Oct 24 13:37:09 blacktip spamd[24511]: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected > > > continuation byte 0xa0, with no preceding start byte) in transliteration (tr/ > > > //) > > > at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 1787, > > > <STDIN> line 199. but saw that this should not be an issue beyond the error message. This is not correct. I went to the bugzilla site and looked at bug # 1147 TEMPORARY WORKAROUND: You can change your locale to regular en_US (en_US.iso885915) instead of en_US.UTF-8 and this seems to fix the problem. RedHat 8 defaults to using UTF-8 locales. You can use locale_config if you have XFree86 installed, or you can just edit your /etc/sysconfig/i18n file. and put the change in place. I not only no longer get the error but it has fixed the CPU load problem. I rarely ever see a load much above .4 and never see spiked in CPU at all. I am not sure if this is a Perl 5.8 problem or a SA problem but seeing as how RedHat 8.0 now includes SA this will come up alot. It may go un-noticed in low volume sites but SA will become known as a CPU pig for sure. This is a great product and this should be fixed ASAP and a patch submited to RedHat for thier errata to avaoid this I think. Thoughts? Thanks all for your help over the last few days with this BTW! Mark ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
