Hi All, We are running exim4.62-4 with Spamassassin 3.1.4-4 on Debian testing and are suffering extremely high IO Wait times on the server whenever spamassassin scans an incoming email. Exim4 is setup as defaults (spamd running locally on standard port) so no configuration was changed.
Spamassassin has not had any rules or other configuration added to it. No options are invoked at startup other than the default in the init script "-d --pidfile=$PIDFILE" The server goes from 1-2% wait times spiking to between 20-90% when spamd is scanning an email, this lasts for a few seconds and then drops back down to normal. This is a system with raided SATA drives on a LVG that also serves small SMB shares. It serves around 40 mail users. I have not had this problem on servers with SCSI drives, or on servers that use SATA but are strictly mail servers. Has anyone had this issue? any ideas appreciated. Thanks, Mark
