Amavis 100%

[Indunil Jayasooriya]

what is the operating system?



On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Tilman Schmidt <tschmidt at cardtech.de>
wrote:

> 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
>
>


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Thank you
Indunil Jayasooriya
http://www.theravadanet.net/
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