Re: limiting resources

2004-09-23 Thread Frederik Dannemare
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 11:51, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Dominique Dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.09.21.1141 +0200]: > > > I forgot to mention that spamc is of course being used. However, > > > spamc does not provide the means to strip markup from email > > > messages, nor can it

Re: limiting resources

2004-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dominique Dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.09.21.1141 +0200]: > > I forgot to mention that spamc is of course being used. However, > > spamc does not provide the means to strip markup from email > > messages, nor can it report to razor. My users don't need > > spamassassin for spam chec

Re: limiting resources

2004-09-21 Thread Dominique Dumont
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I forgot to mention that spamc is of course being used. However, > spamc does not provide the means to strip markup from email > messages, nor can it report to razor. My users don't need > spamassassin for spam checking, but for spam processing. Have

Re: limiting resources

2004-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.09.21.0222 +0200]: > What if you wrote a shell wrapper around SpamAssassin that lowered > its priority before running it, then had your users run this > wrapper instead? ... then this may solve the problem temporarily, until the next comes along. apa

Re: limiting resources

2004-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.09.21.0246 +0200]: > Now, if you make the script NOPASSWD sudo -u sa_learn able, and > make sa_learn only executable by user sa_learn, only one will be > running at a time. yeah, and it would force everyone to use the same database, which is not

Re: limiting resources

2004-09-20 Thread Adam Aube
Stefan O'Rear wrote: > How about a serializing wrapper? > Now, if you make the script NOPASSWD sudo -u sa_learn able, and make > sa_learn only executable by user sa_learn, only one will be running at a > time. Or you could make the script setGID, then remove world read and execute rights on the

Re: limiting resources

2004-09-20 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:22:13PM -0400, Adam Aube wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > Every now and then, coincidence will have it that 10 or 20 users > > invoke spamassassin at the same time. Spamassassin is a resource > > hog and that will cause the machine to basically become unusable, > > wit

Re: limiting resources

2004-09-20 Thread Adam Aube
martin f krafft wrote: > Every now and then, coincidence will have it that 10 or 20 users > invoke spamassassin at the same time. Spamassassin is a resource > hog and that will cause the machine to basically become unusable, > with the load going to 30 and higher. > Obviously, I have put limits o

Re: limiting resources

2004-09-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brett Carrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.09.20.1806 +0200]: > I had a similar problem. My solution was to disallow the use of > spamassassin and force users to use spamc. This requires your > server to run spamd as well. The spamassassin docs have info on > the benefits and risks of t

Re: limiting resources

2004-09-20 Thread Brett Carrington
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:57:21 +0200, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I operate a shell server with about 200 users. Spamassassin powers > the machine, and users use sa-learn to teach it about spam and ham. > The machine receives about 5-20 mails per second and the hardware > keeps the l

limiting resources

2004-09-20 Thread martin f krafft
I operate a shell server with about 200 users. Spamassassin powers the machine, and users use sa-learn to teach it about spam and ham. The machine receives about 5-20 mails per second and the hardware keeps the load between 0.15 and 0.30. Every now and then, coincidence will have it that 10 or 20