Re: [exim] Whats wrong with this mime message?

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 02:52:11PM -0400, B. Cook wrote:
> I have found that since I added the surbl perl script to my exim config
> that some messages take massive ammounts of CPU in exim.
>
> I have removed the data acl scanning portion and have found that the
> mime portion is more effective and less prone to this massive cpu usage.
>
> Below are the headers from a message that takes me 30+ minutes to scan
> on a 2.4G HT box w/ 1G ram on a FreeBSD 6.1-p2 box.

how does the surbl script do its scanning? is it possible
you're hitting one of the pessimal cases for perl's regex
engine?

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