On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote:
@400000004aba627c21dbc344 [10362] info: prefork: child states: BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
As others have noted, you have too many child processes running. Try "-m 5" on your spamd command line rather than "-m 20"
cpu Cpu(s): 89.2% us, 9.8% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 1.0% hi, 0.0% si memory total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 501 319 181 0 22 78 -/+ buffers/cache: 218 282 Swap: 1027 38 988
...but this is difficult to reconcile with your 0.0% waiting and only 38MB swap used.
After SA has been up and running for a while, can you run this and post the results?
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