Hi all, I just
barely subscribed to the list and I have a question...
We did a bit of an
experiment in using SpamAssassin over the past month and just disabled it last
night. We have roughly 9000 email accounts on our server and we
mass-enabled spam assassin for them. Only 78 used the opt-out function we
built, and we received many enthusiastic THANK YOU's from our
customers.
Unfortunately we
moved from having 1 Pentium3 550 server handling inbound email, to using 4
load-balancing (MX-based), each running a copy of spamd and we had at least 2
server "overloads" a week. Since disabling spam assassin last night our
CPU usage has dropped imensely and everything seems much more
stable...
My question is - is
there anything we can do to reduce the load against our servers while running
spam assassin. We love how well it marks out spam - however we can not
continue using it if we need to sacrifice reliability.
We are running
FreeBSD 4.3-Release, sendmail 8.12.2, procmail 3.15.1, and spamassassin
2.11
Thanks!
Justin
