SpamAssassin (spamd) eating a lot of CPU....

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Since a recent update of Spamassassin to:
> 
> PORTVERSION=    3.1.7
> PORTREVISION=   3
> 
> I've noticed that each email that gets scanned causes the process to eat 
> up 80+% of the CPU time, and it's slow...
> 
> I'm not really sure what changed.
> 
> Likewise, when I start it up for the first time, I see:
> 
> [ top output ]
> 49106 root        1 106    0   290M   267M RUN    0   0:17 *98.52%* 
> perl5.8.8
> 
> I have a Dell system here, and it cranks up the fan every time a message 
> comes in now, with the recent spamd.
> 
> Curious if anyone else has had these issues, etc.
> 
> The system is not otherwise active, so I'm certain it's not a resource 
> issue (or constraint thereof).
> 
> 
> Thanks.

We had this issue.  But we assumed that it was an increase in spam on 
the internet (perhaps recent MS worms).