Spam Assassin using up all server resources

On serveral of our servers, spamassasin has suddenly started consuming nearly 100% CPU and bringing the systems completely down.

There have been no changes to either the installation of SA nor have there been any changes to the configurations that it uses (additionally, there has not been an increase in the volume of mail being processed). All DNS and network-based tests are disabled, and the ruleset is strictly using "local tests", but the issues persist.

Anyone having similar issues or know of any kind of fix for this?? For now, we've just disabled SA on several of our servers...but this is certainly not going to make the customers happy!

--Tina

 

 

 

 

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