SpamAssassin MIMEDefang High Load Average

[sgurnick <st...@aptivdigital.com>]

I am currently running SpamAssassin 3.1.9 and MIMEDefang 2.6.3.  I recently
attempted an upgrade of SpamAssassin to the latest version (3.2.4) and in a
matter of about 15 minutes, the load average on the server skyrocketed to
over 20 and continued to grow.  The output of the top command showed that
numerous mimedefang processes had been spawned and they all just sat there
eating up the CPU and memory.  I reverted back to SpamAssassin 3.1.9 and
everything returned to normal.  

In an attempt to troubleshoot this issue, I duplicated my
Sendmail+MIMEDefang+SpamAssassin configuration onto a test machine.  I have
been unsuccessful in getting this problem to occur on the test machine. 
However, any attempt to upgrade SpamAssassin on my production server results
in high load averages.

At this point, I'm at a stand still in terms of what the next step should be
in troubleshooting this problem.  I am unsure if this is a SpamAssassin
problem or MIMEDefang problem as both seem to be involved.    I have been
searching around on other forums and have not found anything.  Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  

Please let me know if there are any configuration files I can post that will
help in narrowing this down further.

Thank you. 
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