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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 20:49:09 +0100
From: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org>
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Subject: Postgrey eats 100% CPU
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Hello,

FreeBSD 9.1 amd64, postgrey-1.34_4, perl-5.14.2_2

Here from time to time and since one or two months, postgrey starts to
eat 100% of CPU, it always occurs juste after it cleans its bases. Then
it does not accept any connection:

Dec  2 03:11:49 net-110 postgrey[2252]: cleaning up old logs...
Dec  2 03:11:49 net-110 postgrey[2252]: cleaning up old entries...

The last time it occured, I deleted its bases because it didn't start
at all.

Does postgrey work for you? Any clue?

I have used it for years without any problem :(

Thanks. Regards.