[NMLUG] Python tight loop causing massive CPU barfage

[paul.tietjens at moriarty.k12.nm.us (Paul Tietjens)]

Dan Parrish wrote:

> | Thanks Dan!  The hardware in question is a SCSI Raid with some rather
> | overblown stats - so I didn't think about looking into the read speeds -
> | but that might actually be something to look into - I think it's running
> | straight mirroring now - but there might be some tweaking I can do
> | somewhere.
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> Ok,yeah...Nevermind about the DMA then.  I had another idea, though.
> Rather than running through entire directories again and again, why not
> just scan all the emails as they enter the system?  This would certainly
> spread out the load over time rather than crunching several thousand
> files at once...Just another thought.  ;-)
> 

That would be sensible, and we already make good use of clamav, 
spamassassin, procmail for that purpose.


The idea here is "Oh hell, how did 454 users get this stupid piece of 
email?" or sometimes "Oh, Tech people - I have just sent an email to 
everyone that I reall need retracted NOW".