Re: Tracking high-cpu messages

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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Dan Mahoney, System Admin writes:
> Hey all, I've recently had issues with a couple of high-cpu processes 
> (i.e. that run for hours and eat 90+ percent of the cpu) under SA-3.0.0.
> 
> What I guess I'd like to ask is this:
> 
> Is there any way to pull something similar to apache's server-status page, 
> where at a glance you can see what spamd children are doing what, and 
> possibly view the message location in the queues, including from and to 
> headers?
> 
> This would obviously be a boon in debugging -- if I were to try and write 
> such a util (I'm thinking SpamTop is a cool name :)), where could I look 
> for the info -- does spamassassin keep a "scoreboard" file?  Where else 
> could I find useful tidbits (besides proc).

I think someone was talking about doing just such a thing -- bug 3983
added a backchannel from spamd children to parent for 3.1.0, so it's now
feasible ;)

- --j.
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