Amavis 100%

[Tilman Schmidt]

As a guess, it was probably scanning a big attachment.

ObAdvice: *don't* use kill -9.

HTH
T.

On 08.06.2017 20:59, Curtis NPC wrote:
> 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