If strace isn't telling you anything, I'd go ahead and kill it. Each spamdyke process only handles one connection and this one's connection is likely long gone -- killing it won't hurt anything.
You're probably not seeing any slowdown because your server likely has multiple CPUs and this spamdyke process is only consuming one of them. If your server were under high load from other processes, you'd see an impact. -- Sam Clippinger On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Emailitis wrote: > The only spamdyke process to appear when I run top is that particular > process. No other process seems to be using that much CPU power. > > Log messages... something like this? > [root@our_plesk_server ~]# cat /var/log/messages | grep spamdyke > Oct 25 11:10:51 our_plesk_server kernel: grsec: From XX.XX.XX.XX: process > /usr/local/bin/spamdyke(spamdyke:18211) attached to via ptrace by > /usr/bin/strace[strace:31611] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0, parent > /bin/bash[bash:25024] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0 > Oct 25 13:03:16 our_plesk_server kernel: grsec: From XX.XX.XX.XX: process > /usr/local/bin/spamdyke(spamdyke:18211) attached to via ptrace by > /usr/bin/strace[strace:15386] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0, parent > /bin/bash[bash:25024] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0 > > This log starts from Oct 21 06:52:10. > > I'm a bit unsure about killing it but so far we haven't had any trouble with > running things on our server. Could this be a false reading? > > Kind regards, > > Koha Choji > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam Clippinger > Sent: 25 October 2012 16:46 > To: spamdyke users > Subject: Re: [spamdyke-users] Spamdyke CPU usage > > Also, stopping qmail won't stop any running spamdyke or qmail-smtpd > processes, it'll only stop new ones from being created. > > Are you seeing high CPU usage from all spamdyke processes or just a single > one? Are you seeing any log messages from this/these high CPU process/es? > It'd be great to see what it's doing with strace but I'm also curious if > another spamdyke process will use high CPU if the existing one is killed. > > -- Sam Clippinger > > > > > On Oct 25, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Sebastian Grewe wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> Try strace -f to follow any child's created? Maybe there is more to see. >> >> Cheers, >> Sebastian >> >> On 25.10.2012, at 15:54, "J. Kendzorra" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Am 25.10.2012 14:06, schrieb Emailitis: >>>> Thanks, J for the response! >>>> >>>> Runing strace doesn't seem to give me much, I hit ctrl+c after a >>>> minute or so. >>>> >>>> [root@our_plesk_server ~]# strace 18211 >>>> Strace: 18211 attached - interrupt to quit Process 18211 detached >>>> [root@our_plesk_server ~]# >>> >>> Doesn't appear to be Spamdyke then ... you sure about that? >>> >>> J. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> spamdyke-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users >> _______________________________________________ >> spamdyke-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
