[afnog] Spamassassin with postfix

[Antonio Godinho]

Hi All,

I have the below result of top on my FreeBSD box which runs FreeBSD 5.2 with 
postfix and spamassassin. The box also does NAT.

It seems the spamassassin consumes most of the CPU, many times it is around 
98% as well. This is happening even though I don't have any internal mails 
being sent out and have very few mails coming in (around 20/min). Is this 
normal for spamassassin?

last pid:  5533;  load averages:  2.39,  2.05,  
1.95                                                 up 0+01:27:03  13:05:38
86 processes:  6 running, 80 sleeping
CPU states: 83.9% user,  0.0% nice, 16.1% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
Mem: 211M Active, 167M Inact, 93M Wired, 1508K Cache, 73M Buf, 147M Free
Swap: 512M Total, 512M Free

  PID USERNAME  PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 5274 filter    119    0 22328K 21644K RUN      1:59 34.81% 34.81% perl
 4773 filter    119    0 20776K 20116K RUN      7:59 34.77% 34.77% perl
 5509 filter     99    0 22248K 21628K select   0:01  8.33%  3.76% perl
 5529 filter    116    0 17232K 16616K RUN      0:01 72.00%  3.52% perl
  546 postfix    96    0  1712K  1272K select   0:02  0.05%  0.05% qmgr
  594 squid      96    0 20868K 20092K select   0:14  0.00%  0.00% squid
  251 root       96    0  1328K   796K RUN      0:12  0.00%  0.00% natd
  598 root       -4    0 91308K 63980K semwai   0:11  0.00%  0.00% vams
  536 root       96    0  1408K   976K select   0:02  0.00%  0.00% master
  604 root       -4    0 16240K 10220K semwai   0:01  0.00%  0.00% vasmtps
  602 root       96    0 16252K 10220K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% vasmtpd
  304 root       96    0  1312K   804K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% syslogd
  600 root        4    0 16228K 10124K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% vawatchdog
  452 root        4    0  3488K  1868K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% sshd
  608 root       -4    0 18624K 10220K semwai   0:00  0.00%  0.00% vaspamal
  220 root       96    0  1812K  1124K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% dhclient
  596 squid      -8    0  1176K   540K piperd   0:00  0.00%  0.00% unlinkd
 5250 postfix     4    0  1520K  1080K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% cleanup
  555 postfix    96    0  1488K  1088K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% smtp
 5356 root       96    0  2304K  1444K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% top
 1619 godinho    96    0  6240K  2108K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% sshd
  625 root        8    0  1376K   844K wait     0:00  0.00%  0.00% vm-pop3d
  488 root       96    0  2632K  1864K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  581 postfix     4    0  1488K  1088K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% smtp
 5248 postfix     4    0  1588K  1200K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% smtpd
 4647 postfix     4    0  1404K   964K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% pickup
 5297 root        4    0  1528K  1044K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% local
 3898 godinho     4    0  6240K  2220K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% sshd


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Antonio Godinho
B.Sc.
CIUEM
Maputo
Mozambique