RE: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

2002-10-25 Thread David Raistrick
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Gustave Eiffel wrote: > Tried that. Load still went up to over 10.0 > > Any other ideas on reducing the load put on by spamassassin? Question.. Do you have razor-checks turned on (and razor agents installed..)? If so, what version? I see random razor1 related slowdowns

Re: Re. [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users - Gettingspikes on CPU

2002-10-25 Thread Rich Puhek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, My goal today is to get this filtering working on my 4 mail servers. Just a summary of my situation. I dont know if anyone is using this is a heavy production environment ( I assume so ) but I am running 4 Quad Xeon servers (1 Gig RAM) and Spamassassin (spam

Re: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

2002-10-24 Thread Rich Puhek
Gustave Eiffel wrote: Hello all, I am using spamc for all users through /etc/procmailrc on 4 servers and spamassassin works great. The problem is that it loads up the CPU to 4.0 and often 10.0 or above. How can I reduce this? Eliminate razor check is one I have seen on some other posts. What

Re: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

2002-10-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Ok, /usr/share/spamassassin/ files are NOT intended for you to edit. They will be obliterated when spamassassin is upgraded. And yes, you will eventualy want to upgrade. If for no reason other than the fact that the patterns present in spam change over time, and eventually old versions of SA b

Re. [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users - Getting spikes on CPU

2002-10-24 Thread gustave
Hello all, My goal today is to get this filtering working on my 4 mail servers. Just a summary of my situation. I dont know if anyone is using this is a heavy production environment ( I assume so ) but I am running 4 Quad Xeon servers (1 Gig RAM) and Spamassassin (spamd) and routing mail that has

Re: Re. [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users - Gettingspikes on CPU

2002-10-24 Thread listuser
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > My goal today is to get this filtering working on my 4 mail servers. > Just a summary of my situation. I dont know if anyone is using this is a heavy > production environment ( I assume so ) but I am running 4 Quad Xeon servers (1 > G

Re: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

2002-10-24 Thread Lars Hansson
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 14:44, Bob Proulx wrote: > Don't all nameservers cache? I know that BIND caches lookups. (Only > responding so that people won't think that only djbdns caches. Both > nameservers do.) No, not all nameservers do. It depends on the role of the server, ie caching or content.

Re: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

2002-10-24 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:44:49AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Won't a caching DNS like djbdns on the box help, with that large > > number of users? > > Don't all nameservers cache? I know that BIND caches lookups. (Only > responding so that people won't think that only djbdns caches. Both >

Re: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

2002-10-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-24 07:16:54 +0200]: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 04:20:16PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > > 0.5, and I'm not high volume. If you do leave any DNSBLs on, make sure > > your spamd server has FAST access to a nameserver. I'd even go as far as > > to recomme

Re: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

2002-10-23 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 04:20:16PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > 2) zero the scores for several, or all, of the DNSBLs. I personally took > the approach of zeroing the scores of DNSBL's for ones which score under > 0.5, and I'm not high volume. If you do leave any DNSBLs on, make sure > your sp

Re: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

2002-10-23 Thread Jure Pecar
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:28:34 -0600 Gustave Eiffel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, spamc is the daemon is it not? spamd is the daemon, spamc is the client :) sorry, seeing procmail made me think of spawning the whole spamassassing for each mail. so, you're hitting loadavg of 4 and more. thats

Re: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

2002-10-23 Thread Gustave Eiffel
This may be a bit of a stupid question but... I have all the config files in /usr/share/spamassassin/ eg 10_misc.cf and 20_body_tests.cf etc Where does /etc/mail/spamassassin/locla.cf fit into this? The config below should go where? Into the locla.cf? Some explanation of how this works wou

RE: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

2002-10-23 Thread Matt Kettler
*NOTE: the following is HUMOR.. do not take this as serious advice on how /dev/null works* Are you sure? Couldn't the contents of /dev/null get corrupted if multiple threads are writing to it without locking? I know I generally read the contents of my /dev/null out into a debug logfile as a par

Re: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

2002-10-23 Thread Matt Kettler
For high-volume I'd recommend a couple tweaks if your CPU load average is going too high. 1) disable razor, as you already suggested, along with razor2, dcc, and pyzor. 2) zero the scores for several, or all, of the DNSBLs. I personally took the approach of zeroing the scores of DNSBL's for one

RE: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

2002-10-23 Thread Gustave Eiffel
Tried that. Load still went up to over 10.0 Any other ideas on reducing the load put on by spamassassin? Thanks Quoting Steve Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > | Suggestions appreciated. > | > | :0: > | * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes > | /dev/null > > suggestion: > You don't need to specify file loc

RE: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

2002-10-23 Thread Steve Thomas
| Suggestions appreciated. | | :0: | * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes | /dev/null suggestion: You don't need to specify file locking (the trailing ":" in ":0:") when writing to /dev/null. :) --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of

Re: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

2002-10-23 Thread Gustave Eiffel
I am running it through spamd an I not? Procmail is the MTA and here is the system wide /etc/procmailrc DROPPRIVS=yes :0fw * < 256000 | spamc So, spamc is the daemon is it not? Thanks Mark Quoting Jure Pecar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:00:16 -0600 > Gustave Eiffel <[

Re: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

2002-10-23 Thread Jure Pecar
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:00:16 -0600 Gustave Eiffel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suggestions appreciated. > > I am running RedHat 8.0 on Quad Xeons with spamassasin (spamd) > version spamassassin-2.31-16 ( version OK? ) > with this for an /etc/procmailrc file: Run it as a daemon (spamd), route you