spamd stuck, running high load for lond time

[Quinn Comendant <qu...@strangecode.com>]

Well, I've got to ask you.

Would spamd (spamassassin 3.0.2 on RHL 7.2/sendmail) ever be the cause of
message delivery delays of a few hours? The suspect emails arrive very
delayed and without X-Spam headers. Sometimes I find spamd running at 99%
CPU for long periods (possibly stuck on processing one message?). I do
have "* < 256000" in my procmailrc so as to skip big email. Ideas? What
else might cause message delays?

Thanks!
Q

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after noon PST.

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