On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:01:13PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > My server is running a heavy website and recieves mail for some 30 users > under 8 domains or so. the amount of spam hitting the server is causing > the load average to drag at times from a calm 1 or 2 up to 12 and even > 20. this is actually hurting the websites' responsiveness a lot. I'm > afraid it's time to consider taking off rules from the list and risk > getting more false negatives through, or kick it out in favor of a > slimmer, non-perl alternative, though I have no idea which way to go. > the 3 spamd processes seem to be constantly taking 5-14% of the CPU for > several hours each night.
I only run spamassian against mail I don't know. For example, most of my legitimate email is from mailing lists. By not checking mail from yahoogroups among others, I cut down the number of messages I check for spam to about 10% of the total, with about 80-90% of them being SPAM. YMMV. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
