<div dir="ltr">what is the operating system? <div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Tilman Schmidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tschmidt@cardtech.de" target="_blank">tschmidt@cardtech.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">As a guess, it was probably scanning a big attachment.<br>
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ObAdvice: *don't* use kill -9.<br>
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HTH<br>
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On 08.06.2017 20:59, Curtis NPC wrote:<br>
> Ok, I was premature in that. I was worried that several amavis processes<br>
> were going to start up again.<br>
> Eventually that process that I described disappeared. But I wonder why<br>
> it was taking so long (5-10 minutes) and so much CPU?<br>
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> On 2017-06-08 18:38:30 +0000, Curtis NPC said:<br>
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</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">>> Now I've noticed that amavis is taking up 100% of the CPU. In fact<br>
>> just a few minutes ago I had several amavis processes running at the<br>
>> same time, all sucking up resources.<br>
>> I had to stop all mail related services. Kill -9 on all amavis<br>
>> processes and then restart them all. Things were calm for a while, but<br>
>> now....<br>
>><br>
>> Any ideas why this happening.<br>
>><br>
>> Here's what I get on the process:<br>
>><br>
>> 11082 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/amavisd-new (master)<br>
>> 11101 ? R 10:26 /usr/sbin/amavisd-new (ch7-11101-07-9)<br>
>> 11529 ? S 0:00 smtp -n smtp-amavis -t unix -u -c -o<br>
>> smtp_data_done_timeout=1200 -o smtp_send_xforward_command=yes -o<br>
>> disable_dns_lookups=yes -o max_use=20<br>
>> 11566 ? S 0:04 /usr/sbin/amavisd-new (ch13-avail)<br>
>> 11697 ? S 0:00 smtp -n smtp-amavis -t unix -u -c -o<br>
>> smtp_data_done_timeout=1200 -o smtp_send_xforward_command=yes -o<br>
>> disable_dns_lookups=yes -o max_use=20<br>
>><br>
>> Top shows thtat is is process 11101 that's taking up all the CPU<br>
>><br>
>> 11101 amavis 20 0 269800 142780 7912 R 100.0 1.8 7:30.26<br>
>> /usr/sbin/amavi<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">cat /etc/motd<br><br>Thank you<br>Indunil Jayasooriya <br><a href="http://www.theravadanet.net/" target="_blank">http://www.theravadanet.net/</a><br><br></div></div></div></div>
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