prefork: child states causes long message processing time

[ro...@surenet.net]

Hi,

I am having a problem with one SA FreeBSD 5 server taking exceptionally
long to process  about 20% of the message. the line "spamd: handled
cleanup of child pid xxxx  due to SIGCHLD" always appears when it takes
a long time to process a message.

Below is an example:

Nov 11 23:11:58 sap01 spamd[26591]: prefork: child states: IIBI
Nov 11 23:11:58 sap01 spamd[26591]: spamd: handled cleanup of child pid
31401
due to SIGCHLD
Nov 11 23:11:58 sap01 spamd[26591]: prefork: child states: IIB
Nov 11 23:11:59 sap01 spamd[31400]: spamd: identified spam (31.7/6.3) for
cooncat:4323 in 124.5 seconds, 1566 bytes.
Nov 11 23:11:59 sap01 spamd[31400]: spamd: result: Y 31 -
HEADER_SPAM,MIME_BAD_ISO_CHARSET,MIME_BOUND_DD_DIGITS,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,RAZ
OR2_CF
_RANGE_E8_51_100,RAZOR2_CHECK,RCVD_HELO_IP_MISMATCH,RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP,RCVD_NUMERIC
_HELO,URIBL_AB_SURBL,URIBL_JP_SURBL,URIBL_OB_SURBL,URIBL_SC_SUR
BL,URIBL_WS_SURBL
scantime=124.5,size=1566,user=coondog,uid=4323,required_score=6.3,rhost=xxxx,rad
dr=x.x.x.x,rport=49812,mid
=<k2061z9UA0U685U67UF84VCK39355938F836951@>,autolearn=spam

I've tried everything from disabling Razor and RBL checks, changing my
DNS servers, stoping connections to my SQL data base, among other
things. If anyone has any ideas, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You