Amavis 100%

[Curtis NPC]

Ok, I was premature in that. I was worried that several amavis 
processes were going to start up again.
Eventually that process that I described disappeared. But I wonder why 
it was taking so long (5-10 minutes) and so much CPU?

On 2017-06-08 18:38:30 +0000, Curtis NPC said:

> Now I've noticed that amavis is taking up 100% of the CPU. In fact just 
> a few minutes ago I had several amavis processes running at the same 
> time, all sucking up resources.
> I had to stop all mail related services. Kill -9 on all amavis 
> processes and then restart them all. Things were calm for a while, but 
> now....
> 
> Any ideas why this happening.
> 
> Here's what I get on the process:
> 
> 11082 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/amavisd-new (master)
> 11101 ?        R     10:26 /usr/sbin/amavisd-new (ch7-11101-07-9)
> 11529 ?        S      0:00 smtp -n smtp-amavis -t unix -u -c -o 
> smtp_data_done_timeout=1200 -o smtp_send_xforward_command=yes -o 
> disable_dns_lookups=yes -o max_use=20
> 11566 ?        S      0:04 /usr/sbin/amavisd-new (ch13-avail)
> 11697 ?        S      0:00 smtp -n smtp-amavis -t unix -u -c -o 
> smtp_data_done_timeout=1200 -o smtp_send_xforward_command=yes -o 
> disable_dns_lookups=yes -o max_use=20
> 
> Top shows thtat is is process 11101 that's taking up all the CPU
> 
> 11101 amavis    20   0  269800 142780   7912 R 100.0  1.8   7:30.26 
> /usr/sbin/amavi