[Gross] High CPU load on small system.

[Arnis Juraga]

Hi!

test server has Slackware 10.2
It has not utilitys You adviced, i used strace.
(11292 - is PID for "mad" grossd child process (eating 98% CPU))
Grants# strace -p 11292
nanosleep({1074233051, 1075662836}, 0xbf7ffab8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid 
argument)
nanosleep({1074233051, 1075662836}, 0xbf7ffab8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid 
argument)
nanosleep({1074233051, 1075662836}, 0xbf7ffab8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid 
argument)
nanosleep({1074233051, 1075662836}, 0xbf7ffab8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid 
argument)
nanosleep({1074233051, 1075662836}, 0xbf7ffab8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid 
argument)
nanosleep({1074233051, 1075662836}, 0xbf7ffab8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid 
argument)
nanosleep({1074233051, 1075662836}, 0xbf7ffab8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid 
argument)
nanosleep({1074233051, 1075662836}, 0xbf7ffab8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid 
argument)
nanosleep({1074233051, 1075662836}, 0xbf7ffab8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid 
argument)
......


Can it help?

Arnis Juraga






Eino Tuominen wrote:
> Arnis Juraga wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have installed Gross on test server, using sendmail, clamav and 
>> spamassassin, pop3 and imap. Gross is working fine, but I have 
>> permanent CPU load ~60-80 %by grossd.
>> This is not an high performance server (Pentium 4, 1.7GHz), mail 
>> statistics on that server is about 10 messages PER MINUTE.
>>
>> I have 1GB ram, (which is fully used, so). Grosss -d shows no errors, 
>> i have limited
>> pool_maxthreads =10
>> number_buffers = 4
>>
>> but nothing changed.
>>
>> What can i do to trace or resolve problem?
>
> Hmm, that sounds really weird. What OS are you running on? If you have 
> truss or ktrace or something similar you could see if grossd is doing 
> any system calls. Do you have dnsbl configured? If you do, does the 
> behaviour change if you compile gross with --disable-dnsbl?
>