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SpamFilter service using 100% CPU resources

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Category: Spam Filter ISP
Forum Name: Spam Filter ISP Support
Forum Description: General support for Spam Filter ISP
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Printed Date: 18 September 2025 at 12:32am


Topic: SpamFilter service using 100% CPU resources
Posted By: Guests
Subject: SpamFilter service using 100% CPU resources
Date Posted: 15 November 2003 at 6:12am
Hi,

I have SpamFilter 1.2.0.178 running on Win2k Server SP4. No antivirus software running. This version has been running for several weeks now without problems.

About one week ago I started having problems : Every time I restart the service, SpamFilter starts using all available CPU resources after 15-30 minutes. I have tried to see if I could find any pattern in the logfiles of what could be causing this behaviour but cannot seem to find anything. Restarting the service solves the problem.

Is this a known problem ?

I could of course schedule a task to automatically restart the service every 15 minutes but I don't think that is the way to go

Does anybody have any suggestions where to check for the reason ?


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Posted By: LogSat
Date Posted: 17 November 2003 at 10:13pm

Freddie,

SpamFilter performs database cleanup commands at intervals specified in the database configuration tab. If the quarantine database is particularly large, and the database server not powerful enough to handle the load, SpamFilter could use up more CPU than would otherwise be the case. Could you please try to reduce the database size by either manually deleting records or configuring a smaller retension period in SpamFilter to see if that solves the problem?

Roberto F.
LogSat Software

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 19 November 2003 at 5:35pm

Roberto

Thanks, will try that but the interval is set to 60 minutes and I am using MySQL. There are only a few hundreds of messages in there and the CPU load starts after 10-30 minutes every time.

At the moment I have tasked the service to restart every 30 minutes.

I will let you know if your suggestion solved the problem

Freddie


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